The Joint Commission now requires that hospital leaders be able to demonstrate that they are not only regularly measuring and monitoring patient flow operations through the Emergency Department, but that they are establishing goals and actively working to drive performance improvement.
Topics: hospital reimbursements- News- health IT- healthcare data- hospital data- joint commission
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As of October 2014, 721 U.S. hospitals have seen their federal reimbursements cut by 1 percent as a penalty for high rates of “hospital-acquired conditions” (HACs), or preventable patient injuries and infections.
Topics: centers for medicare and medicaid- hospital acquired conditions- hospital acquired infections- hospital penalties- hospital reimbursements- patient injuries- poor hospital performance- News- affordable care act- hospital fines
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