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Understanding human factors and compliance go hand-in-hand when it comes to striving for patient safety within health care organizations.

The Joint Commission has released Speak Up™ Against Discrimination, a new educational campaign that encourages patients to speak up if discriminated against while receiving health care. The campaign comes at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has brought health...

Understanding human factors and compliance go hand-in-hand when it comes to striving for patient safety within health care organizations.

As an infection preventionist (IP) working in the Standards Interpretation Group of the Joint Commission, an important function of my job is to answer infection prevention-related questions from health care organizations.

Interventions to decrease burnout in health care are urgently needed. A new study in the July 2021 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (JQPS) evaluates the association between Positive Leadership WalkRounds (PosWR), and health care...

It is courageous for an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) to consider undergoing its first accreditation survey, especially while health care organizations, cities, states and our entire country are in the midst of reacting to an international pandemic.