Newsletter Articles For several years now, the most cited clinical standard in hospitals, critical access hospitals, and ambulatory healthcare by The Joint Commission has been: IC.02.02.01: The hospital reduces the risk of infections associated with medical equipment, devices, and supplies.  Expect CMS to continue to put pressure on The Joint Commission (TJC) and other accrediting organizations (AO) to find more of the serious fire safety and infection control issues the federal agency says they are still missing during surveys. CMS wants to put a stronger spotlight on times when TJC and other AOs fail to find patient safety problems later discovered by CMS survey teams conducting performance checks referred to as validation surveys. To do so, CMS has created a website that provides a graphic about the disparity rate of deficiencies found on validation surveys and then posts deficiency reports from hospitals it says have “recent substantial deficient practices.”
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Mac's Safety Space November 21, 2018
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