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MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD
The
Power of Communication
Len Parisi, NAHQ’s member services director, says that
communication is a top priority of the NAHQ board, teams, and
members and notes the many NAHQ-member initiatives that enhance
communication.
QUALITY COLLABORATIVE
Joint Commission Q & A
This month’s submitted question: Is a freestanding home care or
hospice able to obtain a disease-specific care certification from
the Joint Commission? The guidelines seem to focus on
hospitals.
AHRQ: C. difficile Infection Doubles Among Hospital
Patients
Consider
Supporting the Work of the MS.1.20 Task
Force
NAHQ members should consider
supporting the work of the MS.1.20 Task Force by writing letters of
support to the Joint Commission and the Board of
Commissioners.
INDUSTRY TRENDS
Times
Call for Collaboration Between NAHQ State Affiliates,
QIOs
NAHQ state affiliates and quality
improvement organizations (QIOs) are wise to work together, say
leaders of both organizations, by speaking and exhibiting at each
other’s conferences and even by cosponsoring future forums and
projects, among other
ventures.
ASSOCIATION NEWS
Vote for Your 2008 NAHQ Board of Directors
2009 Call for Abstracts
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Study: Five Case Studies on Performance Measures Using
EHRs
New
Report Addresses Language and Cultural Barriers in
Hospitals
Survey Looks at Nursing Home “Culture Change”
Joint
Commission Awards First COPD Certification
SPOTLIGHT
This month NAHQ E-News presents two alternatives in
accreditation.
Innovations in Hospital
Accreditation
Yehuda
Dror, president, DNV Healthcare Inc., Houston, TX, says its new
approach to hospital accreditation, called National Integrated
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, is under federal
evaluation. If approved, it will be the first new national
accreditation organization for hospitals in more than 40
years.
HFAP:
Accrediting for More than 60 Years
George A.
Reuther, director of Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program of
the American Osteopathic Association, says that HFAP is one of only
two voluntary accreditation organizations authorized by the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services to accredit hospitals under
Medicare.
MEMBER
NEWS
State
News—from California and Colorado
2008 JHQ Reader Survey
Findings
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
“It’s important [for consumers] to have good communication with
their hospital, their physicians—with their nurses and caregivers
if they go to the hospital—and to play an active part in their
health care. That’s key to ensuring the highest quality and best
safety.”—Heidi Benson, NAHQ past president, in a Tennessean.com
article on the public availability of comparative hospital
data
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