The National Patient Safety Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating a world where patients and those who care for them are free from harm. NPSF is the founding...
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) defined safety as “freedom from accidental injury.” Patient safety has multiple definitions:
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) – A discipline in the health care...
Patient Safety Awareness Week, an initiative of the National Patient Safety Foundation, is March 13 -19, 2016. The National Patient Safety Foundation recently published the report Free from Harm: Accelerating...
Development, implementation and maintenance of your organization’s policies and procedures plays a huge part in patient safety. Let MCN Healthcare help.
The development and management of policies is important in healthcare....
The Joint Commission has issued a NEW Sentinel Event Alert that addresses detecting and treating suicide ideation in all settings. According to TJC, the suicide rate in the United States...
The Joint Commission recently released Sentinel Event Statistics for 2015. Unintended retention of a foreign object was reported 116 times between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2015 making it,...
Last week’s blog covered the U.S. Senate’s release a report on the outbreak of deadly bacterial infections linked to contaminated medical scopes. According to the report, Preventable Tragedies: Superbugs and...
The United States Senate has released a report on the outbreak of deadly bacterial infections linked to contaminated medical scopes. According to the report, Preventable Tragedies: Superbugs and How Ineffective...
MCN Healthcare staff give back in a variety of ways during the year. One of our clinical staff recently travelled to Madagascar through the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod. This group sends...
In May 2015, the World Health Organization reported the first local transmission of Zika virus in the Western Hemisphere, with locally acquired cases identified in Brazil. As of January 15,...