Just before the end of 2020, TJC was completing about 10 percent of its scheduled on-site surveys. Now, they plan to use novel approaches like virtual surveys to work through the backlog.
Organizations must prepare themselves for what’s to come—heightened agency scrutiny, expanded areas of focus and reduced tolerance for non-compliance with regulations and standards.
As healthcare becomes integrated through M&A, one of the most difficult challenges for a system or network to achieve is an effective system-wide criteria based privileging methodology.
As we prepare for a changed future, health systems must make it easier for medical staff to effectively deliver care across the system, without unnecessary barriers, bureaucracy or costs.
In the event of an incident causing a large influx of inpatients into a healthcare organization, contingency actions outlining alternatives to usual staffing plans should be developed.
