activities. The PPR provides the chassis for continuous standards compliance and focuses on the essential systems and practices that affect patient care and safety. The hospital self-evaluates its adherence with all Joint Commission Accreditation Participation Requirements, National Patient Safety Goals, related Elements of Performance (EPs), and develops a Plan of Action for all areas of performance identified as being non-compliant. The hospital also develops Measures of Success (MOS)
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Executive Summary Accreditation Audit- Task 1 Maggie Miklos January 25, 2014 Executive Summary At Nightingale Community Hospital (NCH) one of our core values is to provide superior service and outstanding clinical care as noted in our safety statement. We welcome The Joint Commission (TJC) to survey our facility on a triennial basis to ensure compliance with their established standards and Priority Focus Areas: Infection control, Communication, Medication Management, and Information
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Control performance against the Joint Commission’s accreditation standards. The summary will include a corrective action plan designed to aid Nightingale in meeting all standards. Nightingale Infection Control Status Executive Summary TASK A Accreditation Audit Consultants was asked to provide a review and corrective actions plan for each of the Joint Commission Primary Focus Areas as part of Nightingale Community Hospital’s Re-Accreditation readiness program. While each of the Primary Focus
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meeting high quality performance standards. The Joint commission focuses on accrediting Acute Care Hospitals, ambulatory, behavior health, long term care, health care facilities, clinical laboratories, health care networks and hospice. Numerous of accreditation organization is also taking place within the United States, but the Joint commission remains the largest The Joint commission accredits 20,000 organization” which” one third are Hospitals. The joint commission is assigned a special task to
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Health Organization (WHO) hand hygiene guidelines, continuing evidence-based best practice to prevent or reduce the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), identifying patients at risk for suicide. Within the rest of the accreditation requirements the facility was compliant with the following elements: EM-emergency management HR-Human Resources IC-Infection Prevention and Control IM-Information Management MS-Medical Staff PI-Performance Improvement RI-Rights and Responsibilities
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Doctoral program was right for me, there were three dimensions of the program that were important to me. The three dimensions were school accreditation, online only programs, and cost of tuition. The analytical hierarchy process matrix for the three dimensions is shown below. | School Accreditation | Online Only Program | Cost of Tuition | | School Accreditation | 1.00 | 10.00 | 5.00 | | |
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services an institution offers, staff to patient ratios, medical equipment used (technological resources), utilizing best practices that aims to reduce patient outcomes and cost, these factors may all contribute to higher standards thus validating accreditation. Healthcare organizations are prone to medical errors, as seen in the Virginia Mason Case. Although medical errors may occur, continuous quality improvement efforts seek to ensure medical errors of the same nature do not occur repetitively. “Hospitals
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Accreditation Audit 4 June 2015 Contents Executive Summary 3 Compliance Status 3 Plan For Compliance 3 Provider and staff education 4 Care team communication 4 Patient Discharge Education 4 Justification 5 Works Cited 6 Executive Summary The purpose of this report is to summarize, analyze and evaluate the compliance status of Nightingale Hospital to Joint Commission requirements. This report will focus on medication management, specifically anticoagulation therapy and the
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[pic] [pic] A Global Accreditation Association [pic] [pic] TENTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE WORLD ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES [pic] SPECIAL OFFER TO JOIN WAUC EXTENDED TO JUNE 1, 2003! Any school applying for membership to the WAUC may enter the organization for $400.00 and they must also pay their 2004 yearly dues simultaneously with the membership fee. Yearly dues for member schools are $2000.00. Therefore, new schools paying a total fee of $2400.00 will become members of the
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December 2, 2013 RAFT Task 1 Executive Summary for Joint Commission Standards Compliance Nightingale Community Hospital is a 180-bed acute care hospital that is a not-for profit entity. The hospital is community based and provides leadership in quality health services in which they provide. Their vision is to be the hospital that people choose, the place employees, physicians and volunteers want to work and a hospital of choice for the community. They are committed to providing a healing environment
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