Mastering Informed ConsentBy: Standards Interpretation Team Posted: April 8, 2025Questions posed during ACHCU’s monthly Coffee Chat live webinar often serve to reveal opportunities to extend education and develop additional resources for ACHC-accredited hospitals. In...
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Advance Directives Require Important Considerations
Advance Directives Require Important ConsiderationsAdvance directives rank among the most important legal documents in the healthcare setting. They come into use when a patient is incapacitated and cannot provide informed consent for care or cannot actively...
Assessing Competencies Helps Ensure Quality and Safety of Patient Care
Assessing Competencies Helps Ensure Quality and Safety of Patient CareCompetencies are not just requirements in health care. They are crucial aspects. Competencies play pivotal roles in ensuring patient safety, quality and continuity of care, and operational...
Heads Up, Laboratories! Dengue Virus, Novel Influenza, and More
Heads Up, Laboratories! Dengue Virus, Novel Influenza, and More Increased Risk of Dengue Virus Brings Lab Capacity Expansion On June 25, 2024, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a Health Alert Network (HAN) message about an increased risk...
Verifying Personnel Credentials Is a Crucial Task for Hospitals
Verifying Personnel Credentials Is a Crucial Task for Hospitals Posted: May 16, 2024In 2023, a multi-state scheme to sell fake nursing diplomas resulted in more than two-dozen federal arrests. Acute care and critical access hospitals of every size should view...
Have a Plan for When You Must Write a Plan of Correction
Have a Plan for When You Must Write a Plan of CorrectionPosted: March 14, 2024You are not alone. Nearly all organizations surveyed for accreditation are cited for deficiencies. To address deficiencies, an organization must develop an effective Plan of Correction...
Acute Care Hospital: Unraveling the Mysteries of Informed Consent
Unraveling the Mysteries of Informed ConsentPosted: August 22, 2023Patients or their representatives have the right to participate in the development of the patients’ plans of care. This includes providing informed consent for medical and surgical interventions....
Privacy and Safety: Identify Patients At Risk
Privacy and Safety: Identify Patients At RiskPosted: March 6, 2023Patients have the right to receive care in a safe setting. Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) Acute Care Hospital Standards require patient care to be provided in a safe environment and...
Preparing for the End of the COVID-19 PHE
Preparing for the End of the COVID-19 PHEPosted: February, 2, 2023On January 30, 2023, the White House announced that the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency will end on May 11, 2023. As part of the emergency preparedness cycle, returning to normal...
Preparing for the End of the COVID-19 PHE
Preparing for the End of the COVID-19 PHEPosted: September 7, 2022On January 30, 2023, the White House announced that the COVID-19 national emergency and public health emergency will end on May 11, 2023. As part of the emergency preparedness cycle, returning to normal...