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Accreditation Connection

• Greeley Reflections

  Each week, a senior consultant from The Greeley Company's Center for Healthcare Accreditation will...

• Joint Commission changes preliminary denial of accreditation rules

  The Joint Commission has announced two changes to its Preliminary Denial of Accreditation (PDA...

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Accreditation Monthly

• The Joint Commission Back to Closed Record Review?

  Have you heard that the Joint Commission survey will again be doing closed record review? For...

• Blanket Warmers, What Is Safe?

  When completing readiness assessments, I have noticed much disparity in the temperature of blanket...

• Problem Lists - What is Required?

  When on-site assessing ambulatory care for standard compliance, I am often asked about what is...

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Infection Control Weekly Monitor

• HHS allocates $9 million for ASC surveys

  Last week Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that...

• Wall Street Journal looks at 10 steps to preventing infections

  Part of a Wall Street Journal Health Care report released late last month includes a breakdown of...

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Patient Safety Monitor Alert

• Editor’s Pick of the Week: National Patient Safety Goals Calculator, 2010

  Don't stress about your hospital's success on survey day—HCPro’s updated automated data...

• Introducing Patient Safety Monitor!

  HCPro is proud to announce its latest patient safety product: Patient Safety Monitor.

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Patient Safety Monitor: Global Edition

• Ask the expert: How can we reduce the number of medical staff committees?

  Medical staffs can reduce the number and size of committees by combining them and their functions...

• Ottawa Hospital continues improvement of patient safety

  On April 30, as part of a May 2008 initiative by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care to...

• England: Despite high number of mistakes, patients told not to worry

  Burton's Queen's Hospital has suffered 26 serious untoward incidents (SUIs) in the past year, which...

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Patient Safety Quality Monthly

• Zero-Tolerance Rules: Can they work?

  This month there was an interesting article in The New York Times about a 6-year-old boy who was...

• Leadership Sentinel Event Advisory

  Last month, The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert titled “Leadership Commitment...

• Policies, Procedures & Competencies - Oh My!

  “In our organization, we use policies and procedures as interchangeable words; they are just...