Updated Accelerate PI™ Dashboard Reports are available for home health and hospice organizations to provide updated performance measurement data on a select subset of quality measures. The refreshed home healthcare reports contain data through the third quarter of 2021. The refreshed hospice reports contain data through the second quarter of 2021.
Data in the reports comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (CMS) Compare website. The reports are intended to be a springboard for conversations on performance measures and quality improvement during the survey process, as well as a guide to support an organization’s quality journey.
Reports are located under the “Resources and Tools” menu below the DASH heading in Joint Commission Connect®.
More than two nurses were assaulted every hour in the second quarter of 2022, according to new data released by Press Ganey earlier this month.
The data, which came from Press Ganey’s National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators®, showed:
- The most assaults occurred in psychiatric units, emergency departments and pediatric units, with psychiatric units being the modality at which the largest percentage of moderate or severe injuries occurred.
- Patients were the most likely to assault a nurse, but other perpetrators of the violence included family members, coworkers, or visitors.
The Joint Commission takes this issue very seriously, with available resources including:
Learn more about the Press Ganey study.
- Ambulatory Buzz — Is That Instrument Safe to Use on a Patient? Sterile processing and perioperative staff work together to ensure instruments used during surgical procedures are clean, sterile, and safe for use. Most surgical staff would agree that if it is not clean, it certainly is not sterile, writes Sylvia Garcia-Houchins, RN, MBA, CIC, Director, Infection Prevention and Control, Office of Quality and Patient Safety, The Joint Commission.
- Dateline @ TJC — Make the Most Out of Your Telehealth Visit: Telehealth is becoming a mainstay of healthcare, providing patients and their providers options for accessing care. The Joint Commission’s new patient safety campaign, Speak Up™ At Your Telehealth Visit, provides patients guidance on preparing for their telehealth visit, writes Christina Cordero, PhD, MPH, Project Director, Healthcare Standards Development.