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PI Program Key to Quality Improvement
An effective performance improvement (PI) program gives your behavioral health organization a solid framework to continuously drive advancements in quality of care and business efficiency.
Critical Access Hospitals: Patient Comfort and Safety Can Be Found in the Air
Keeping patients comfortable and safe is part of high-quality health care. And that goes beyond medicines and procedures. Maintaining appropriate temperature, humidity, and airflow makes the environment comfortable and helps prevent infection. Your organization can use best practices to develop a monitoring program.
Keep Patients Involved to Avoid Deficiency
Medicare regulations specify that completion and implementation of the individualized plan of care for each renal dialysis patient be properly documented and signed by all members of the patient’s interdisciplinary care team (IDT) — including the patient or their representative.
Home Care: Preparing for Survey Interviews Can Ease Concerns
Your survey for ACHC Home Care Accreditation is an independent assessment that evaluates your agency’s compliance with recognized national standards for quality and safety.
Pharmacy: Include All Staff in Survey Preparation
Pharmacies often rely on one person to be responsible for all accreditation survey preparations. This may fall to the pharmacist in charge, owner, or designated compliance staff member. This may fall to the pharmacist in charge, owner, or designated compliance staff member.
Palliative Care: Preparing for Survey Interviews Can Ease Concerns
Your survey for ACHC Accreditation is an independent assessment that evaluates your agency’s compliance with recognized national standards for quality and safety.
Background Checks Boost Safety Efforts
As a sleep care provider, patients trust you to deliver excellent services in a safe environment. Performing background checks on employees confirms your commitment to ensuring patients receive secure, quality care.
Home Infusion Therapy: Preparing for Survey Interviews Can Ease Concerns
Your survey for ACHC Home Health Accreditation is an independent assessment that evaluates your agency’s compliance with recognized national standards for quality and safety.
FDA and CDC Provide Updates for Monkeypox, COVID-19, and Ebola Testing
Federal agencies offer guidance on collecting, transporting, and shipping specimens for Ebola testing and ensuring authorized, valid, and ever-advancing tests for monkeypox and COVID-19 are available for use.
Critical Access Hospitals: Patient Comfort and Safety Can Be Found in the Air
Keeping patients comfortable and safe is part of high-quality health care. And that goes beyond medicines and procedures. Maintaining appropriate temperature, humidity, and airflow makes the environment comfortable and helps prevent infection. Your organization can use best practices to develop a monitoring program.
Home Health: Preparing for Survey Interviews Can Ease Concerns
Your survey for ACHC Home Health Accreditation is an independent assessment that evaluates your agency’s compliance with recognized national standards for quality and safety.
Understanding Emergency Readiness
Just a quick look at social media or at a news resource can make you keenly aware of the threats healthcare workers and patients could face from Mother Nature and human-caused incidents. With epidemics, extreme weather, active shooters, and so many other dangers, the best chance for a successful outcome will come with preparation.
Accreditation Commission for Health Care, Inc.