Joint Commission

The most important leadership practice of Debby Hewitt is overseeing and ensuring compliance with accreditation bodies such as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). JCAHO is the accreditation and evaluation program Sonora Regional Medical Center uses to analyze the practices and processes of the hospital and outpatient clinics while also comparing them to standards of other hospitals across America. These processes vary from ensuring the completion of a referral

This paper discusses the leadership style of the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) at HealthSouth Rehabilitation in Toms River, New Jersey. HealthSouth is the nation’s largest inpatient rehabilitation, there are HealthSouth’s in 28 states and one in Puerto Rico. There are inpatient, outpatient, and home health services. The mission statement of HealthSouth involves an advanced degree of rehabilitative care to clients recovering from cerebrovascular accidents, cardiac and pulmonary disorders, spine, and

unit to recover and receive teaching and therapy. After getting settled into bed you gets the guts to throw back you sheets and take a look where there was once a left leg. To your horror your left leg is there and your right leg is not! “The Joint Commission considers wrong site surgery to be a sentinel events which is defined as "an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious

comparable physicians in the United States (Herrick, 2007). Median nurses’ salaries in the United States are typically 50 percent greater than those in many overseas locations. Furthermore, unskilled and semiskilled labor, such as technicians and housekeeping staff may be procured at massive discounts when compared to U.S. wages. The end result is these reduced labor rates make it extremely cost effective to both build and operate medical facilities in overseas locations. Market trends or third

Imagine if you were in need of medical attention that you could not afford because of where you live or the doctor nearby did not have standardized treatment for your diagnosis. What would you do? Would you continue to seek treatment locally or find somewhere else to receive cheaper, proper care? Most people would want to be taken care of by a doctor who knows what he or she is doing and if it saves money at the same time, it is a hard deal to turn down. Traveling to seek medical attention is better

The XYZ Rest Home has a unique and personal group with great commitment to eminent care and special individual needs. This facility has been operating since 1996. Family owned and run, the facility puts great emphasis in giving compassionate and professional services in a safe haven that they can call home (Anne Marie Rest Home, 2014, a). A 40-bed capacity aged care facility that offers hospital level of care with registered nurses on duty in each shift (Anne Maree Rest Home, 2014,b). Weekly visits

The Joint Commission is an independent, nonprofit organization. The Joint Commission approves and certifies almost twenty-one thousand health care organizations and programs in the United States. The Joint Commission accreditation and certification is used nationwide as a symbol of quality that reflects an organization’s commitment to meeting certain performance standards. The Joint Commission standards are developed with input from healthcare professionals, providers, subject matter experts,

The common sense approach to abbreviations should apply to PSI reports as well. Of course one can abbreviate suffixes (Dr. Mr., etc.), words like rd. (road) st. (street) and ave. (avenue). Agency names could be spelled out completely and followed in parenthesis, i.e. State Bureau of Investigation (SBI). Beyond these, I see no reason to include abbreviations to the point that they are even a topic of discussion. Probation officers are not really relaying a personal opinion in the PSI. They

Back in 2003, the Joint Commission created a National Patient Safety Goal due to 23 occurrences of death or injury to a patient where alarms had been applied incorrectly or the alarms had been muted (Sendelbach & Funk, 2013). By 2004, Joint Commission had removed it from their National Patient Safety Goal list and made it a requirement for Joint Commission accreditations (Sendelbach & Funk, 2013). In 2013, it was brought to the attention of the Joint Commission regarding many alarm-related events

For many years, hospital personnel have struggled with maintaining the accuracy of fluid intake/output measurements of patients. Your decision to focus a change project aimed at addressing this issue and making changes to correct the problem is important to maintain the safety of patients during hospitalization. The color-coded I/O sheets are an excellent idea. This will increase the staff’s awareness as to the status of the patient and the increased documentation for strict I/O measurements every