Accreditation Articles by Topic: Tracer Methodology
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 32, August 9, 2011
AHAP is starting to gear up some discussion selecting speakers for the 2012 AHAP conference, and...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 30, August 2, 2011
The latest AHAP working group call on tracers was a great success! Thank you to all who joined in...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 28, July 12, 2011
Our next working group call will take place on Wednesday, July 27th at 3 pm EST (2 pm Central...
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Accreditation Insider, Issue 27, July 5, 2011
Upcoming working group call
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 27, July 1, 2011
The Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP) recently launched a survey for...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 26, June 24, 2011
The Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP) has launched its latest...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 7, February 11, 2011
The Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (AHAP) announced this week that they...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 47, November 19, 2010
the Joint Commission’s latest Sentinel Event Alert targets suicide risk in the...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 41, October 8, 2010
Each week, a senior consultant from The Greeley Company's Center for Healthcare Accreditation will...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 35, August 27, 2010
The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare has announced it will release a tool...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Inside:
Learn methods to improve continual readiness
CRR data collection tool (pdf...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Sometimes, it’s all about implementation.
When Northwest Texas Healthcare System (NWTHS) in...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Inside:
Start from the beginning
Focused Professional Practice Evaluation: Keep it simple
Joint...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
When Heather Forbes, RN, BSN, CEN, CSHA, HACP, accreditation and regulatory coordinator at Southern...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Once your survey is completed, your work has just begun. You must keep the momentum going and stay...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
The standard formerly known as MS.1.20 is on the move again. The Joint Commission opened up the...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Tracer methodology, used by The Joint Commission since 2004, has increased the focus on the patient...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 17, April 10, 2009
Accreditation professionals across the country have known for months that revisions to Joint...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 17, April 10, 2009
For a number of years, Nassau University Medical Center in Long Island, has been beset upon by...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 9, February 27, 2009
Q. Our cardiopulmonary staff members have a short period of time to perform EKGs on patients coming...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 6, February 6, 2009
One survey. Five hospitals. More than 40 ambulatory and outpatient locations. When Joint Commission...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 5, January 30, 2009
Constructing a tracer process from scratch for a 645-bed hospital is no simple matter, but that was...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, Issue 6, June 1, 2008
Being in constant compliance with regulatory standards is one goal for hospitals everywhere. But...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 45, November 2, 2007
For facilities that had their most recent announced Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) survey in...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, Issue 11, November 1, 2007
Patient tracers have become a primary tool for surveyors during unannounced surveys, making the use...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, Issue 8, August 1, 2007
During Northwestern Memorial Hospital's five-day unannounced survey this past spring, surveyors...
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Briefings on Accreditation and Quality, Issue 11, November 1, 2006
For the past four months, Memorial Hospital CEO Gary Marchand has been conducting mock patient...
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Accreditation Connection, Issue 36, October 3, 2005
Sample questions for an infection control mock tracer
