Hospital Peer Review – February 1, 2011
February 1, 2011
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Changes in TJC policies aplenty in 2011 — are you up to speed?
From new and revised standards to new levels of accreditation, this year will bring some changes in Joint Commission expectations. -
TJC looking for core measure 'accountability'
In October 2010, The Joint Commission told Hospital Peer Review it was going to change the way core, or ORYX, measure data was used to accredit hospitals. -
Using frontline staff to improve hand-offs
When Intermountain Healthcare's LDS Hospital joined with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare and nine other hospitals to work on hand-offs, the health system's associate chief medical officer says the first step was identifying which hand-offs the hospital wanted to work on. -
Credentialing & Privileging: Creating applications for privileging
[In the first two articles of this series, Vicki Searcy, president, consulting services at Morrisey Associates Inc. in Chicago, introduced the four basic components of clinical privileging as well as creating criteria for privileges: -
Accreditation Field Report: Surveyors look at IC 'everywhere'
It was the first Joint Commission survey for Elizabeth Donnenwirth, RN, accreditation/sharps safety specialist at Winchester Hospital in Winchester, MA. But she says there weren't many surprises. -
Reinertsen honored with Eisenberg award
Despite his modesty about his work and life, James L. Reinertsen, MD, received a 2010 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality award for individual achievement from The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum.