The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation/Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation (CORE) to support The Joint Commission in the…
Read More from CMS has made The Severe Obstetric Complications (eCQM) Available for Public Comment:
The Joint Commission, the nation’s largest accrediting body for hospitals and healthcare providers, has incorporated recommended best practices for treatment of preeclampsia and hemorrhage into their accreditation standards. These new…
Read More from The Joint Commission: New Standards for Perinatal Safety
PERINATAL CARE (PC) CORE MEASURES: UPDATES FOR FALL 2019 Wednesday, October 2 12:00-1:30 PM ET Susan Yendro, RN, MSN Project Director, Department of Quality Measurement, The Joint Commission The purpose…
The Joint Commission is considering the development of standards for perinatal care in the hospital accreditation program (HAP), specifically related to the care of patients experiencing hemorrhage or severe hypertension/preeclampsia….
The Joint Commission will begin publicly reporting hospitals with consistently high NTSV cesarean birth rates on Quality Check® by July 1, 2020, using data reported by hospitals during the calendar…
Beginning with January 1, 2019 discharges, hospitals that are Joint Commission accredited with >300 annual deliveries will be required to report the perinatal care measure, PC-06: Unexpected Complications in Term…
Newborns are at a high risk of misidentification due to their inability to speak and lack of distinguishable features. In addition to well-known misidentification errors in the hospital setting after…
Read More from The Joint Commission issues R3 Report on new requirement for newborn identification
Every Week Counts ended in 2014, but the effort to eliminate early elective deliveries continues. As an annual update, the Office of Perinatal Quality Improvement created a report sent to…
Health care professionals typically take great pride and exert painstaking effort to meet patient needs and provide the best possible care. Unfortunately, too often, this diligence and attentiveness falters when…
Read More from The Joint Commission – Sentinel Event Alert: Inadequate hand-off communication
It is easy to get into a rut in life. Unfortunately, this seems to be the pattern in many American maternity units. During the last several decades, rates of interventions—in…