Hospital Peer Review – January 1, 2004
January 1, 2004
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Lessons learned: What to expect from Shared Visions — New Pathways
Expect a lot of interaction with unit staff but no control over where surveyors go or who they talk to. Thats what quality managers who participated in the pilot surveys for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Shared Visions New Pathways process are saying. -
Cope with lack of control during new survey process
Perhaps the hardest thing to get used to about the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations new survey process is the lack of any set agenda, says Helena Feather, vice president of compliance and health information at Trident Health System in Charleston, SC. -
What JCAHO’s new IC standards mean for you
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations has issued new infection control standards for 2005, emphasizing at a conference in Chicago that hospital executives not quality managers or infection control practitioners are going to have to take ultimate responsibility for enacting them. -
2005 JCAHO standards feature analysis, action
Some of the key aspects of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations 2005 infection control standards are summarized here: -
What to do if physicians dispute your data
Its a frequent tactic of physicians: claiming that quality data are imperfect, invalid, or otherwise misleading. When physicians are not acting on proven data, the quality manager has to stand up to the physicians and protect the integrity of the data, says Frederick P. Meyerhoefer, MD, principal of the Canton, OH-based Meyerhoefer Organization, a consulting firm that specializes in compliance with Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations standards. -
The Quality-Cost Connection: Get more out of your FMEAs
Health care organizations have been improving processes for years. Recently, however, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations mandated that organizations use a proactive risk assessment technique failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) to improve the safety of patient care activities. -
Discharge Planning Advisor: Do you offer a choice on home care services?
Discharge planners at some facilities apparently are either unaware of -or are ignoring - a federal requirement that hospitals offer patients a choice of home care providers and that they tell patients when there is a financial interest between the hospital and an agency to which the patient is being referred. -
Discharge Planning Advisor: Hospitals seeking SNF beds think creatively
As hospital discharge planners and case managers struggle to place patients with complex care needs in skilled nursing facility (SNF) beds amidst the challenges of the prospective payment system (PPS), many are keeping their heads above water with a mix of timely planning, community collaboration, and creative thinking. -
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