-
A couple of years ago, Lisa Zerull, RN, MS, the force behind the dramatically successful community nurse case management (CNCM) program at Valley Health System in Winchester, VA, faced a new challenge: She was informed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) that it would begin surveying the program based on the agencys home care standards, in conjunction with the health systems home health program.
-
The Case Management Society of America (CMSA) in Little Rock, AR, has revised its Standards of Practice to reflect changes in the health care system and the evolving role of case managers within that system.
-
-
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced recently the granting of deeming authority for critical access hospitals to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, meaning these hospitals will be considered to have met Medicare certification requirements once the Joint Commission accredits them.
-
What is the purpose of your health care organization? To survive and prosper, of course. But the question is, by what method? What you need is everybody working to improve performance, and to do that, you need the means to determine how well processes are working for patients.
-
The innovative quality improvement program that greatly improved patient care in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system could be available to all hospitals within a year, according to program leaders who say the system could revolutionize health care quality.
-
Clinical laboratories will have a new method for measuring proficiency and demonstrating that they have met quality standards, under a new accreditation plan announced recently by the American Proficiency Institute (API) in Traverse City, MI; the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP) in Chicago; and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in Oakbrook Terrace, IL.
-
With the advent of Shared Visions New Pathways, a great many things about the Joint Commissions survey process will change in 2004, but the collection of ORYX data isnt necessarily one of them, says Jarod M. Loeb, PhD, vice president of research and performance measurement with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
-
Results from an ongoing national quality improvement initiative examining adherence to American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) treatment guidelines for chest pain disorders, suggest that using a class of drugs known as glycoprotein (GP) IIb-IIIa inhibitors reduced in-hospital deaths by 46%.
-
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson has launched the national Nursing Home Quality Initiative in an effort to improve the quality of care given to the millions of long-term care residents.
