February 2007 Volume 31 No. 2
Physicians can take some simple but important steps to help SHC show the Joint Commission the high quality of care at SHC, but they’re going to have to be “ever ready” during 2007.
For the first time at Stanford, the surveyors from the JC (formerly the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare) will arrive unannounced and conduct a visit based on “tracer methodology,” explained Pepe Greenlee, accreditation and regulatory quality manager at SHC. She has been working with an interdisciplinary team, including physicians and key hospital executives, to make sure the institution will demonstrate accountability in the rapidly changing healthcare marketplace. (See more)
Medical Staff members have been told in a joint letter from the chiefs of staff at SHC and Packard hospitals that the institutions are joining in a collaborative approach with the nurses’ union representing both hospitals during talks to negotiate a new contract.
The contract between the Committee for Recognition of Nursing Achievement (CRONA) and the two institutions expires March 31, “and both hospitals expect new contracts will be completed and ready to take effect before April 1,” said the letter, sent Jan. 17, and signed jointly by SHC’s Chief of Staff Larry Shuer and Christy I. Sandborg, interim chief of staff at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. (See more)
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