Accreditation news and information

The nation's hospitals, nursing homes and outpatient clinics continue to fall short when it comes to performing necessary—and sometimes very basic—steps to prevent the spread of infection that can cause illness or death, new data from the Joint Commission show.
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For the past several years, the agency that oversees the nation's residency programs—the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education—has been mired in discussions dealing with resident work hours. The ACGME's Next Accreditation System, its new structure for evaluating physician...
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The American Osteopathic Association has hired Adrienne White-Faines to be its new executive director. She starts next month and will replace John Crosby, who is retiring.
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Each summer, teaching hospitals undergo a transformation as a team of experienced residents leave and are replaced by trainees fresh out of medical school. Some view this as a time of peril for patients—commonly referred to as “the July...
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A lack of clear rules governing providers that perform advanced-imaging scans could undermine the federal goal of limiting Medicare patients' exposure to radiation.
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They walked into the program as physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, administrators, consultants and naturopaths. And the 112 who passed the subsequent exam walked out as certified patient-centered medical home content experts—and now carry the credibility, marketability and...
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URAC, a Washington-based healthcare measurement and accreditation organization, has named Kylanne Green president and CEO, effective July 22. Green succeeds Alan Spielman, who left his post Feb. 15 after serving as president and CEO since 2005.
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As the U.S. faces a shortage of physicians—potentially more than 90,000 by 2020—medical schools are seeking to counteract the deficiency with higher enrollments.
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The nation's largest hospital accreditation organization has issued a warning to hospitals about the dangers of alarm fatigue, which can occur when clinicians become desensitized to the incessant beeping of medical device alarms.
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Limiting first-year medical residents to a 16-hour work shift was intended to improve patient safety while enhancing the educational experience, but two studies suggest the opposite may be occurring.
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