Your Complete Guide to The Joint Commission's SAFER Matrix
January 2017 marks the beginning of The Joint Commission's new risk scoring method, Survey Analysis for Evaluating Risk, otherwise known as SAFER. This guide will outline the new methodology and its scoring and how it will affect your survey process.
In this guide, you'll discover:
- The need to know basics and some drill down details and definitions
- How to prepare for the new survey
- Post-survey resources
Not Just a Rounding Tool
DIGITAL ROUNDING
A robust digital data collection tool allows our clients to easily compile and analyze quality data for performance improvement, compliance, high reliability efforts.
REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
With proactive, continuous checking, regulation compliance becomes a byproduct; eliminating the 'ramp up' time before a survey.
PI AGGREGATION
Save time and effort by using the automatically generated PI intel. Begin performance improvement efforts immediately.
REAL-TIME REPORTING
Have instant access to any failed item and when/where/who/why it failed. Transparency and accountability is essential, but often lacking.
A methodology to support High Reliability efforts
Whether it is moving the organization towards High Reliability or simply reacting to HAC fines, healthcare organizations often need a way to improve reliability.
This can be accomplished by:
- Implementing optimized processes
- Building a culture of reliability
- Utilizing tools to leverage healthcare workers’ potential to provide improvement