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Just before the second COVID-19 surge hit at the end of 2020, The Joint Commission (TJC) was completing about...
12/10/2020 - During this webinar, we’ll share our proven approach to leveraging scarce infection prevention expertise across the organization....
The Greeley Company was delighted to share its insights about how to best prepare for and cope with changes...
9/30/2020 - Learn how to cope with changes in the survey process from our decades of experience with state,...
7/15/2020 - The Joint Commission and CMS have started to re-engage with hospitals and other healthcare organizations as communities...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center May 29, 2020 On May 27, 2020, The Joint Commission (TJC)...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center April 13, 2020 In the event of an incident causing a...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center April 7, 2020 During national or local “disasters” hospitals may face...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center March 27, 2020 The following recommendations are culled from CDC and...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center March 25, 2020 All healthcare personnel understand the risk of COVID-19...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center March 24, 2020 As part of our COVID-19 blog series, on...
Click here to visit our COVID-19 Resource Center Amid ongoing concerns regarding the containment of the COVID-19 virus and...
CMS and The Joint Commission recently issued a string of notifications to the healthcare industry in response to the...
Greeley’s core mission is to help hospitals deliver high-quality, cost-effective patient care. In an effort to provide further education...
The following is an excerpt from the Q&A following our Insights webinar, “Meeting The Joint Commission’s New Perinatal Safety...
2/13/2020 - Join Greeley experts as we take an in depth look at the new requirements for the recognition...
Avoiding patient harm has been healthcare’s goal from the days of Hippocrates. Yet achieving this goal remains elusive. Despite...
The Greeley Company was delighted to share its insights about how to best prepare for and deal with CMS...
12/13/2019 - Put recent CMS changes into context with possible changes in the interpretive guidelines process.
11/6/2019 - Review trends and patterns in Joint Commission and CMS survey findings, and outline the best way to...
10/11/2019 - For over 30 years, The Greeley Company has helped hospitals remove the madness surrounding accreditation and regulatory...
Documentation has always been a burden to clinicians, and it has increased exponentially in the last several years with...
High-level Disinfection/Sterilization, suicide prevention, and Environment of Care and Life Safety are discussed. | Healthcare Business Today
What are the Odds of a Medicare Deficiency after a Joint Commission Survey? Your hospital has a 50-50 chance...
The Greeley Company has a rich history of providing innovative consulting, education, outsourcing solutions, interim staffing, and external peer...
The Greeley Company held a national online seminar covering the top 20 Joint Commission and the top 22 CMS...
Question: Surveyors have cited us for standards, such as contracted services, and are inconsistent with content of this webinar.......
Question: Should screening for suicidality be documented for all patients or only if certain criteria are met?
Question: Can you go into more detail about what the regulations require for medication storage. In our facility, pharmacy...
Question: You said that orders for non-violent restraints no longer need to be renewed every 24 hours?
Question: Does food storage include staff refrigerators or only refrigerators with patient items?
If hospital survey results during the past year are any indication, 2019 should be a very busy and challenging...
Joint Commission representatives have begun emphasizing the need for an additional “NFPA Time Out” for some surgical cases.
Greeley Senior Consultant Bud Pate shares advice with Becker's Clinical Leadership on how to avoid adverse findings, and what to...
Imagine hosting a last-minute surprise party at your home for a group of extremely particular individuals. Sound fun? This...
If you are looking to make a change at your hospital to define or revise the way you do...
There are two types of recommendations that can come out of a mock survey: good recommendations and unhelpful recommendations.
If your hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission (TJC), your CEO recently received a letter.
As more states legalize marijuana, more physicians have begun recommending cannabis to their patients for the management of pain,...
ATTENTION In-House Counsel and MSPs: Do these negligent credentialing scenarios sound familiar?
The Greeley Company invites you to download a complimentary copy of The Case for Simplification: How Hospitals Can Get Clinicians...
Tasked with the need to comply with a vast body of changing regulations and the ever-shifting payer requirements for...
By now everyone should be well aware that two categories of standards rise to the top in the volume...
You may have heard in passing that the FDA banned the use of powdered gloves in January 2017 due...
Summary: The Greeley Company’s consulting model is intended to help hospitals and their affiliated Medical Staffs build and strengthen...
How to clarify Don’t get hung up on the clarification format. Sometimes explanations don’t fit well into the Joint...
Rumor has it that the Joint Commission removed the option to clarify survey findings. This rumor is not true....
The Joint Commission has proposed some changes to it’s national patient safety goal for suicide prevention.
A key way to propel our hospital data to the next level of usefulness is to consider where our...
While it’s not something any hospital wants to acknowledge, the threat of receiving a CMS Statement of Deficiencies (CMS...
Dan Nielsen, former healthcare executive turned speaker and author, conducted several enlightening interviews at the 2016 Becker’s Hospital Review...
Administrators at a 300-bed tertiary healthcare facility brought in consultants from The Greeley Company to help guide them through...
If you have received a CMS Termination Letter, it has been determined that your hospital has a condition-level deficiency....
Recent public statements by CMS representatives have raised questions about the mechanism a hospital should use to authorize/approve temporary...
t should come as no surprise that nine out of the 10 most frequently cited standards during 2014 TJC...
Long-Term Partnership Enhances Safety Program Efficacy and Compliance A Midwest regional hospital with 350+ beds has been working with The...
We have all had beliefs we held to be true, only to find out at some point in the...
Many compliance-related activities that exist in hospitals today are carried out based on the mythological belief that these things...
If your hospital has received a Statement of Deficiencies (CMS Form 2567) with Notice of Immediate Jeopardy or Notice of...
