"This Place Is Amazing"

Renewing the Medical Center’s Accreditation, The Joint Commission Gives High Marks on All Counts

 

It’s a week before the holiday season, and wall decorations glisten as Janet Kraus, RN, director of accreditation and standards for NYU Langone Medical Center’s Tisch Hospital, and two colleagues enter the 16th-floor oncology unit. Kraus gives a warm greeting to nurse manager Roseanne DiRiso, RN, then glances around. “Everyone’s wearing their ID tags—that’s good,” she says. Referring to Christine Charles, RN, a new arrival to the unit whom she’ll meet with shortly, she adds: “Notice how Roseanne let me know that Christine is following correct protocol by transferring her patient to another nurse’s care before joining me.”

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On Tisch Hospital’s 17 East (left to right), housekeepers Sarley Macias and Jairo Pimentel are joined by chief regulatory officer Maxine Simon and nurse manager Acieta Small, RN. When inspectors from The Joint Commission quizzed Macias and Pimentel on procedures they follow to maintain a safe patient environment, they were highly impressed by their answers.
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