Industry Notes:
Keep These National Patient Safety Goals In Mind For Coming Year
Published on Thu Nov 01, 2012
Preventing falls is one of the measures stressed in this year's National Patient Safety Goals for home health agencies from accrediting body the Joint Commission. The goals should look pretty familiar -- they are all repeats from recent years' lists. The accreditor formerly known as JCAHO's other home health NPSGs for 2013 include identifying patients correctly, using medicines safely, preventing infections, and identifying patient safety risks.More information is online at
www.jointcommission.org/standards_information/npsgs.aspx.