News Headlines Just when you thought you had your suicide prevention safeguards in place, things are about to change again. The Joint Commission has issued more guidance designed to help healthcare facilities reduce suicides and stay in compliance with what seems like ever-changing standards.  Infection control experts have been warning for some time now that the newest, and perhaps worst, infectious illness outbreak is yet to hit the U.S. Recently, the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, with the support of the CDC, released a new guidance document designed to help hospitals and smaller healthcare facilities respond to outbreaks of infectious diseases quicker and more efficiently. Laboratorians are resourceful, and if you followed them through their workday, you would be amazed at some of the processes they have put into place to perform the tasks they’ve been assigned to do. Not all of these processes follow the written lab procedures, though. Some are not acceptable by lab accrediting agencies, and many are simply unsafe.
Marketing Spotlight CMS and The Joint Commission are placing more emphasis on reducing adverse events, which means hospital quality professionals are under pressure to have an effective occurrence reporting process in place. In this 90-minute webinar, performance improvement expert Kenneth R. Rohde provides practical techniques and advice to help participants analyze their occurrence reporting process, use data to learn why errors occur, and make improvements that will strengthen patient care and reduce adverse events.
Editor's Pick February 22, 2018
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