Regulatory and Compliance: Hospital Communication and Wrong Site Surgery Prevention March 21st, 2014 Accreditation Audit Regulatory Audits and Compliance Hospital Communication and Wrong Site Surgery Prevention Background: Wrong Site Surgery is costly and horrifying experience for the patient, the physician and the hospital. It is considered a preventable medical error. In 1999, the Institue of Medicine report, To Err is Human states that “clinicians were unaware of the number of surgery-associated
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ntroduction Mr Idris Bin Junid was appointed as new Chief Executive Officer in the holding company, Travel Investment Holding Bhd (TIH). One of TIH’s subsidiary is Malaysian Travel Sdn . Bhd. (MTSB). MTSB had invest in MTT as joint venture holding 40% equities with Turkistan Global Services Sdn. Bhd. (TGS) holding another 60%. The director of MTSB, Yatim Nor who is the father of board member in TGS, Omar Yatim, had signed the agreement to form MTT. The external auditor appointed by TIH has discovered
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Patient Care Improvement Tracer methodology is an evaluation method used by Joint Commission surveyors where they select a patient (resident or client) and use that individual’s record as a roadmap to move through an organization to assess and evaluate the organization’s compliance with selected standards and the organization’s systems of providing care and services. Surveyors retrace the specific care processes that an individual experienced by observing and talking to staff in areas that the individual
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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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The Nightingale Community Hospital is anticipating an audit from the joint Commission in the next 13 months to come and they are preparing to perform well in the audit. The hospital will focus on improving its communication process. The purpose of communication in healthcare setting is to disseminate information about the patient and what needs to be done because the patient is releasing decision making ability and safety into the control and care to the doctor. Communication is very vital because
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Nightingale Hospital Regulatory Audit HDB Nightingale Hospital Regulatory Audit Nightingale Community Hospital is an innovator of high quality care and patient centered services. The hospital vision and mission focus on all stakeholders in the health care community and their role in either delivering or receiving excellence in care. The services offered at Nightingale are comprehensive and include: General Medicine; Critical Care; Emergency; Oncology; Cardiology; Telemetry; Vascular;
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of white collar crime that occurs around all of us. The problem with this is too many people think that they can get away with it, and many of them do. To stop this influx of crime, a large number of agencies have been formed. These agencies use a joint policing style to combat white collar crime in the most effective way. Each and every day it is becoming harder to cheat the system due to the diligence and hard work that these agencies put forth. Policing White collar crime is around us everywhere
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Flight of Funds 1. Introduction In 2006, Malaysian Travels Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of a public listed company, purchased 40% equity in Turkistan Global Services Sdn Bhd.Turkistan Global Services Sdn Bhd purpoted to have acquired the oppurtunity through a Memorandum of Understanding signed by a Malaysian Minister with a Turkistan Minister for exclusive rights to handle logistics arrangement for the promotion of businesses between the two countries. On 1 April 2010 Mr Idris Bin Junid was appointed
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Melissa L. Nelcha AFT2- Task 1 Western Governors University October 25,2013 The Joint Commission has identified four distinct areas of concern within our accreditation audit. They are Communication, Information Management, Infection Control and Medication Management. While each of these is important, and vital in running Nightingale, the focus of this Summary will be on Medication Management. The reasons are as follows: * Errors can lead to increased hospital stays, possible lawsuits, and
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| Accreditation Audit: AFT Task Two | Stephanie Clements | | | Western Governor’s University | | Sentinel Event A sentinel event is defined by The Joint Commission as an unexpected occurrence involving death or serious physical or psychological injury, or the risk thereof (Joint Commission, 2015). The event described in the case study is a sentinel event resulting in the abduction of a child. The event begins when a child is admitted to the preop unit for outpatient surgery
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