Hospital Peer Review – May 1, 2011
May 1, 2011
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Communication key to reducing disruptive behaviors
How many times a day do you hear or read the word "safety"? -
How to measure success of communication
If anyone knows how difficult it is to measure something as ephemeral as "good communication," it is David Maxfield. -
The new push for reliability
Perhaps one of the most startling sentences in a recent Health Affairs article by Joint Commission president Mark Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH, is one in which he and his co-author, commission executive vice president Jerod Loeb, state that "...we know of no health care organization that has been able to achieve a consistent state of high reliability." -
Accreditation field report
Laura Sellers, director of operations at Skyland Trail, an 80-bed behavioral health hospital in Atlanta, has gone through 10 Joint Commission surveys. -
CMS releases proposed ACO rules
The proposed rules for accountable care organizations (ACOs) were released at the end of March, and Donald Berwick, MD, administrator for the Centers For Medicare & Medicaid Services, lost no time writing about their potential import in the New England Journal of Medicine. -
TJC joins partnership for patients
The Joint Commission has announced that it and its Center for Transforming Healthcare will participate in the Partnership for Patients, a public/private initiative designed to make hospitals safer by reducing harm and readmissions. -
Readmissions costly, impact quality of life
In today's healthcare environment, as patients are being discharged from the hospital sicker and quicker than ever before, some patients are in and out of the hospital as if they are going through a revolving door, says Catherine M. Mullahy, RN, BS, CRRN, CCM, president and founder of Mullahy & Associates, a case management training and consulting company based in Huntington, NY.