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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new online toolkit to help hospital and health system leaders and clinicians communicate with patients and their families when...
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The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has released a new online toolkit to help hospital and health system leaders and clinicians communicate with patients and their families when...
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QUESTION: Per CMS regulations, how often must a Critical Access Hospital evaluate its programs? ANSWER: CMS regulation §485.641(a) addresses the periodic evaluation of a Critical Access Hospital’s (CAH) programs. The CAH must carry out...
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Question: Does The Joint Commission require a hospital’s Director of Nursing to have a Master’s Degree? Answer: The Joint Commission addresses the qualifications of a hospital Nurse Executive (Director of Nursing) in the...
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Question: Is there any update on when CMS will begin to require compliance with the face-to-face requirement for DME patients? Answer: The latest update from CMS regarding the face-to-face encounter requirement for certain...
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Patient Safety Awareness Week, an initiative of the National Patient Safety Foundation, is March 13 -19, 2016. Â The National Patient Safety Foundation recently published the report Free from Harm: Accelerating...
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Question: Is there a standard related to monitoring the temperature when performing quality control checks for eyewash stations? Answer: The Joint Commission does not have a specific standard related to monitoring the water...
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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...
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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,...
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