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AHAP is a community in which survey coordinators and other accreditation specialists share the latest tested tips, tools, and strategies to implement successful accreditation programs and achieve professional growth. In this e-newsletter, you'll read helpful tips and timely news items related to accreditation and survey-readiness improvement. Plus, train your staff and yourself with our weekly quiz questions included with clickable answers.
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Issue 17, April 24, 2018
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Study Questions Effectiveness of Performance Measures
The study’s researchers recommend that organizations should stop using performance... -
Seeking comment on suicide prevention book
I'm working on new HCPro Book, a guide on suicide prevention and ligature risks in hospitals... -
Patient Safety Strategies: Building a Fall Prevention Toolkit
During this three-hour virtual workshop, Carole Eldridge, DNP, RN, CNE, NEA-BC, and Virginia Hall...
Issue 16, April 17, 2018
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Joint Commission Urges Hospitals to Protect Workers from Abuse
The Joint Commission is the latest healthcare heavy-hitter to call for better protection of...
Issue 15, April 10, 2018
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HFAP to keep name going forward
HFAP will be keeping its name. The accreditor had originally planned to take the name of the...
Issue 14, April 3, 2018
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Study: Link between infection control and antibiotic stewardship
Healthcare facilities must ensure that infection prevention and control (IPC) and antibiotic...
Issue 13, March 27, 2018
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The Joint Commission: Comments open on proposed suicide risk NPSG through May 7
Wishing you could weigh in on The Joint Commission’s expectations about suicide risk? You...
Issue 12, March 20, 2018
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Lawmakers want more AO oversight
In a letter to CMS Administrator Seema Verma, the committee is asking for what could be reams of...
Issue 11, March 13, 2018
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3 Ways to Knock C. diff Rates Down to Zero
For Necia Kimber, RN, CIC, MHA, infection control practitioner at Stillwater (Oklahoma) Medical...
Issue 10, March 6, 2018
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Joint Commission releases 2017 sentinel event stats
Unintended retention of a foreign body, patient falls, and wrong-site surgery top The Joint...
Issue 9, February 27, 2018
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Report: Six opportunities to improve patient safety
Over the next four years, $383.7 billion will be spent on adverse patient safety events in the... -
Webinar: How Vanderbilt University Medical Center Established a Hand Hygiene Program
Presented on: March 22, 2018, 1:00-2:30 p.m. EST Presented by: Thomas R. Talbot, MD, MPH Level of...
Issue 8, February 20, 2018
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Involving patients and representatives in care decisions
Involving patients in their care isn’t just polite, it’s a CMS requirement.
Issue 7, February 13, 2018
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Like CMS, you should pay attention to sexual harassment
With all the recent focus on sexual harassment in the workplace, healthcare organizations...
Issue 6, February 6, 2018
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Joint Commission updates LS, EC chapters
Three revisions to The Joint Commission’s Life Safety and Environment of Care chapters will... -
Webinar: Occurrence Reporting: How to Report, Identify, and Resolve Problems
Presented on: February 27, 2018, 1:00-2:30 p.m. EST Speaker: Kenneth R. Rohde Program Level...
Issue 5, January 30, 2018
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CMS Inpatient-Only List: Preparing for Critical Changes in 2018
Each year CMS revises its inpatient-only list of approximately 1,700 procedures. The most notable...
Issue 4, January 23, 2018
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Surgeon sued for double booking surgery
There’s a reason why the American College of Surgeons (ACS) recommends asking patients if...
Issue 3, January 16, 2018
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Joint Commission to roll out new maternal care and infectious disease requirements
The accreditor made the announcement in the latest R3 Report, with the aim of protecting both the... -
High Reliability and Safety in Healthcare Workshop
Gain the tools and guidance to create a culture of high reliability and safety within your...
Issue 2, January 9, 2018
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Prepping for winter storms
With the biting cold and heavy snow that struck the East Coast this month, and with more on the way... -
The CMS Conditions of Participation and Interpretive, 2018 Edition
Compliance with the Conditions of Participation (CoP) is required to meet Medicare and Medicaid...
Issue 1, January 2, 2018
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CMS: Providers can text, just not medical orders
CMS is clearing up recent confusion on what medical providers can text each other. The agency...