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NewsLong work hours linked to adverse events, Joint Commission warns
The Joint Commission is calling attention to long work hours in a new Sentinel Event Alert released today. With documented links between healthcare worker fatigue and adverse events, as well as lower Read more...
Joint Commission proposal against overtesting, excessive procedures
With a brighter spotlight on overtesting and excessive procedures, The Joint Commission this week proposed a national patient safety goal (NPSG) for hospitals and critical access hospitals, Read more...
TJC sentinel alert cautions hospitals from over-radiating patients
In light of the recent heated debate on diagnostic radiation testing, The Joint Commission yesterday released a Sentinel Event Alert in which the accrediting body warned healthcare organizations Read more...
Patient safety 'fluency' requires more than language interpreters
Today marks the end of the National Patient Safety Foundation's annual "Patient Safety Awareness Week." It's a good time to review your policies and procedures around medication safety, infection Read more...
Lack of accreditation, licensing plague California surgical centers
In what reads almost like a season's worth of story lines for the now-defunct television series "Nip/Tuck", the Los Angeles Times examines the world of California-based plastic surgery centers, many Read more...
Joint Commission aims to improve patient hand-offs
High miscommunication rates on patient hand-offs are the motivation behind the Joint Commission's latest collaboration with hospitals via its Center for Transforming Healthcare. In all, 10 hospitals Read more...
Hospital quality of care improves, but weak spots persist
The quality of care in U.S. hospital is up, according to a report released Wednesday by the Joint Commission. Still, while hospitals achieved 90 percent or better performance on many individual Read more...
Rising tide of violence puts hospital workers in harm's way
The shooting and murder-suicide Thursday at Johns Hopkins Hospital is the latest example of a rising tide of violence in America's hospitals, according to MSNBC. Healthcare facilities reported 33 Read more...
Pushing patient safety takes more guts than we've seen
Getting physicians to comply with hospital hand hygiene rules has long frustrated hospital patient safety officers and quality managers. We all know inadequate hand hygiene spreads infections. And Read more...
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Location: Falls Church, Va. Number of beds: 904 CEO: L. Reuven Pasternak, MD Type of hospital: Nonproft, acute care Lists appeared on: HealthGrades, Most Wired Hospital's website: inova.org/ifh Inova Read more...
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