Washington state hospital keeps survey ’uneventful’
Accreditation Connection, March 28, 2008
Often, simple steps help hospitals perform better on Joint Commission surveys. For Valley General Hospital in Monroe, WA, it was a matter of color coding pharmacy medications, eliminating unapproved abbreviations at the source, and distributing educational newsletters to staff members.
In October 2007, the then 72-bed hospital underwent its Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) survey. The survey lasted the usual four days and involved two surveyors (an RN and a social worker) for Valley General's chemical dependency unit. According to Quinn Hatala, RN, BSN, manager of clinical quality and patient safety at Valley General, the survey was "uneventful."
Valley General's Joint Commission surveyors focused on the National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG) and used patient tracers as a main tool to assess compliance, common practice for the accrediting body. They found a few habits that could be refined, but in general, found many of Valley General's practices and policies in compliance.
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