The Joint Commission recently approved the addition of two new Human Resources (HR) requirements for accredited hospitals, critical access hospitals, and ambulatory care organizations (including those that have achieved Advanced Diagnostic Imaging certification) that provide diagnostic imaging services. The new HR requirements address minimum qualifications for technologists providing computed ...

US policymakers continue to call into question the tax-exempt status of hospitals. As nonprofit tax-exempt entities, hospitals are required by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to report the type and cost of community benefits they provide. Institutional theory indicates that organizations derive organizational legitimacy from conforming to the expectations of their environment. Expectations f...

The system accreditation option for ambulatory care organizations has been revised to require surveying of all sites providing moderate, deep, and general sedation/anesthesia. This revision is effective immediately. Launched in 2006, the system accreditation option is an evaluation approach that awards a single accreditation decision to a “system” (an organization with a corporate office or mai...

Too many of our nation's hospitals have been become complacent over disaster preparedness. They develop a document to meet a licensure requirement or a joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations standard. The language is minimal and when the document is exercised, only a few portions (personnel recall and mass casualty, in particular) are tested. It would benefit hospitals to...

background: nowadays, restriction on access and optimum use of resources is the main challenge of development in all organizations. therefore, the aim of this study was to determine the technical efficiency and its factors, influencing hospitals of tehran. methods: this research was a descriptive-analytical and retrospective study conducted in 2014-2015. fifty two hospitals with public, private...

Abstract In dynamic markets, organizations have to be ambidextrous adapt constant change. Simultaneously, are increasingly required adopt quality management accreditation. Standardization through accreditation bares the risk of limiting an organization’s capabilities. this study, we aim evaluate determinants organizational decision-making seek and pursue innovation activities, whether activitie...

Senior hospital executives responding to a 2005 national telephone survey conducted for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) report that Hospital Compare and other public reports on hospital quality measures have helped to focus hospital leadership attention on quality matters. They also report increased investment in quality improvement (QI) projects and in people and systems to ...