Nightingale Community Hospital is expecting an audit from the Joint Commission in 13 months, and the areas of Information Management, Medication Management, Communication, and Infection Control all need to be addressed before the visit. The purpose of this executive summary is to review and outline the current state of compliance at Nightingale Community Hospital in a specific priority focus area discussed below. Information Management
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Healthcare Law and IT Brittany Technology is constantly evolving and advancing. As the healthcare industry becomes more electronic the laws protecting patient health information also need to evolve to cover the ever changing technologic advances. The concerns of protecting patients’ private healthcare information have grown as the use of electronic medical records has become more prevalent throughout the industry. In the 1960s computers began being used for generalizing human behavior
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Running head: ACCREDITATION AUDIT- TASK 4 COMPLAINCE STATUS Joint Commission clearly explained that a Periodic Performance Review is as an assessment tool designed to help in assisting the healthcare organization contributes greatly in the improvement and monitoring performance all through the year. The periodic performance focuses more on the measures that has to do with patients safety and care and at same time given the facility for unremitting standards fulfillment. NCH is 100% compliance with
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Joint Commission Action Plan Accreditation Audit – AFT2 Task 1 Nightingale Community Hospital is a 180 bed hospital that prides itself in creating the most cost effective place to heal in the comfort of the most compassionate staff of excellence. Nightingale Community Hospital is thirteen months away from a visit from Joint Commission. The four identifying factors that we need to focus on are four areas: Information Management, Medication Management, Communication
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Accreditation audit 4 June 2015 Contents A. Tracer Audit 3 A1. Focus issue 3 A2. Corrective action 4 Works Cited 5 A. Tracer Audit The tracer was performed as part of a process improvement to assess compliance with The Joint Commission standards (The Joint Commission, 2015). In this process, a random patient chart was chosen and the process followed from admission to discharge including any directly related follow-up or readmission. The chart chosen for this tracer was for a
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Communication Regulations at Nightingale Hospital Western Governors University Communication Regulations at Nightingale Hospital Nightingale Hospital complying with Joint Commission’s is not occurring. The Universal Protocols (UP) met on some months and not on others. The Time-Out Hospital Wide UP looks like hospital was increase in compliance over the year and reached the one hundred percent make until December. This protocol should be preform at every surgery or minor procedure (where
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and Exchange Commission today announced the filing of enforcement actions alleging fraud and other violations against Royal Ahold (Koninklijke Ahold N.V.) (Ahold) and three former top executives: Cees van der Hoeven, former CEO and chairman of executive board; A. Michiel Meurs, former CFO and executive board member; and Jan Andreae, former executive vice president and executive board member. The Commission also charged Roland Fahlin, former member of Ahold's supervisory board and audit committee, with
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and Exchange Commission today announced the filing of enforcement actions alleging fraud and other violations against Royal Ahold (Koninklijke Ahold N.V.) (Ahold) and three former top executives: Cees van der Hoeven, former CEO and chairman of executive board; A. Michiel Meurs, former CFO and executive board member; and Jan Andreae, former executive vice president and executive board member. The Commission also charged Roland Fahlin, former member of Ahold's supervisory board and audit committee, with
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INTRODUCTION Partnerships are defined by the Audit Commission (1998) as “joint working arrangements where parties are otherwise independent bodies who agree to co-operate to achieve common goals, create a new organisational structure or process to achieve these goals, plan and implement a joint programme and share relevant information, tasks and rewards”. Stern and Green (2005) clarify the definition of partnerships further as programmes that have “a high level of commitment, mutual trust, equal
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Compliance Status “Effective communication is a cornerstone of patient safety” (The Joint Commission, 2007). Nightingale Community Hospital has areas of improvement needed in the area of communication. The following are the results of an audit for National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) compliance. * Hospital –wide compliance of reporting critical results within 60 minutes with supporting documentation present is 82% at its highest. * Verbal Order/Read Back – 7 departments are not at 100%
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