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In light of a recent Government Accounting Office report that found that the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations failed to detect deficiencies in the Medicare Conditions of Participation (COPs) during surveys, quality managers need to take extra care to ensure their organizations are compliant with, says Patrice L. Spath, BA, RHIT, a health care quality specialist with Brown-Spath & Associates in Forest Grove, OR.
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When the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations introduced its periodic performance review (PPR) tool in November 2003, there was a single important criticism from the organizations that completed it: They wanted the tool to be available to them all the time, not just once every three years.
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Work stress and dissatisfaction with the work environment may hasten the retirement of aging nurses, according to a study by the Center for American Nurses, an Austin, TX-based affiliate of the American Nurses Association.
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Are you tired of dealing with multiple data definitions and similar but differing performance measures? Youve probably wished many times that the quality measures from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) were identical.
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A recent four-day Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) survey at United Regional Health Care System in Wichita Falls, TX, was very patient-focused, with direct caregivers much more involved, reports Darlene Adams, RN, MSN, the organizations patient care safety/quality management officer.
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A high priority has been placed on improving incident reporting as the first step in reducing unintended patient injuries. The incident reporting system in many health care organizations is evolving into one that focuses on near misses, provides incentives for voluntary reporting, ensures confidentiality (not necessarily anonymity), and emphasizes data collection, analysis, and improvement.
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The quality professionals role continues to evolve, with many professionals stepping into leadership and business roles, according to the latest Hospital Peer Review salary survey.
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The Abbott Vascular Devices (Redwood City, California) division of Abbott Laboratories (Abbott Park, Illinois) reported in mid-September that it had enrolled the first patient in its ZOMAXX I drug-eluting coronary stent clinical trial. ZOMAXX I is a 400-patient, randomized clinical trial that will be conducted in more than 30 centers in Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
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CoreValve (Paris) will begin a European Phase I clinical trial of its ReValving System at The Heart Center (Seigburg, Germany), having received institutional review board (IRB) approval at that institution. The trial calls for use of the ReValving System to non-surgically replace diseased aortic heart valves in 10 patients who are contraindicated for open-heart surgery. The principal investigator will be Eberhard Grube, MD, chief of cardiology at The Heart Center.
