Accreditation

Accreditation Articles by Topic: Restraint and Seclusion

Standards update: Answering your questions on restraints and more

  • Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 8, August 1, 2009

    Restraint remains one of the most challenging issues in hospital accreditation today. To that end...

Greeley Reflections

  • Accreditation Connection, Issue 29, July 13, 2009

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

Greeley Reflections

  • Accreditation Connection, Issue 28, July 6, 2009

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

Greeley Reflections

  • Accreditation Connection, Issue 27, June 29, 2009

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

Greeley Reflections

  • Accreditation Connection, Issue 26, June 22, 2009

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

Understand the guiding principles of behavioral restraint

  • Accreditation Connection, Issue 2, January 9, 2009

    Implementing, utilizing, and monitoring behavioral restraints continue to pose challenges and...

Restraints Interpretive Guideline: Questions answered

  • Accreditation Connection, Issue 48, November 13, 2008

    Q. If a patient is in restraints and it looks like he can do without them, and I take them off, can...

Restraints Interpretive Guideline: Questions answered

  • Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 11, November 1, 2008

    Editor’s note: The following question and answer session took place during HCPro’s...

Understand new rules for reporting restraint deaths

  • Accreditation Connection, Issue 41, September 26, 2008

    CMS revised the new Interpretive Guidelines for hospitals in April. The changes were not...

Understand new rules for reporting restraint deaths

  • Briefings on The Joint Commission, Issue 9, September 1, 2008

    Editor's note: Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD, director of hospital risk management at OHIC...