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Since January 2003, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations requires that all accredited home care organizations implement recommendations associated with National Patient Safety Goals that are relevant to the services the agency provides. Compliance with the goals will be evaluated during all unannounced and regularly scheduled surveys.
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Compliance with the National Patient Safety Goals top the list of items that Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations surveyors examine, according to home health managers who recently have undergone accreditation surveys.
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While the issues of safety and productivity may not, at first glance, seem directly related, the two are inextricably linked, says Wayne Lednar, MD, corporate medical director of Eastman Kodak Co. in Rochester, NY.
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The Chicago-based American Hospital Association has published another 135 examples of strategies that are helping hospitals and health systems recruit and retain needed employees.
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In a multicenter study of occupational HIV exposures, 38% of source patients had genotype mutations associated with resistance to antiretroviral drugs. Recent antiretroviral treatment history was highly associated with resistance.
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The results of genetic analysis of a strain of S aureus with high-level resistance to vancomycin suggest that this resistance was the consequence of genetic transfer from a VRE to an MRSA, each present in and on the unfortunate patient who served as the incubator.
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