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During your next survey by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), its unknown where surveyors will go, which staff members theyll speak to, and which patients will be traced. But one thing is certain: Compliance with the National Patient Safety Goals will be a key focus.
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The finalized 2005 National Patient Safety Goals of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) bore a close resemblance to the proposed goals announced earlier, with one notable exception: The elimination of the bar-coding requirement.
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As of Jan. 1, 2005, hospitals will be paying an estimated $2700 more in average triennial survey fees. This is due to the need to make further investments in the new accreditation process that was introduced this year, according to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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Arranging care for uninsured and underinsured patients has become more complicated in the past four or five years, says Jennifer DeCamp , MSW, LSW, a social worker at Swedish Covenant Hospital in Chicago.
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The evaluation of a febrile child is an extremely common scenario in most emergency departments. Emergency physicians must decide which children require a work-up, the nature of that work-up, and the need for antibiotics with or without hospitalization. This process often is in the context of evaluating many febrile children, with only subtle clues as to which child truly may be ill. Unfortunately, it is common for inadvertent errors in judgment to end up in the courtroom as a subject of malpractice lawsuits. This months issue focuses on some of the risks and controversies in the evaluation of the febrile child.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations 2005 National Patient Safety Goals that will apply specifically to hospitals have been finalized but many eager quality managers didnt wait for this news to take action.
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You may not be an architect, but it might be time for you to start paying a little more attention to the way your hospital is designed especially if youre about to have a new facility built or youre embarking on a substantial renovation.