Joint Commission Announces Action Plan to Revise Accreditation Process

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations was founded in 1951 as a private, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits hospitals and other healthcare organizations. In 1987, the JCAHO launched its Agenda for Change to create a more modern and sophisticated accreditation process to place primary emphasis on actual performance. Coincident with this new emphas...

The Joint Commission announces 2014 National Patient Safety Goal.

Coiumbia County to Revise Salary Plan

HUDSON, Oct. 2 — The Civil Service Employees Association has urged the salary committee of the Columbia County board of supervisors to consider a general salary adjustment for county employees and a revision of the county's present classification and salary plan. The two-step proposal was made j but^a few'Ynstancesi at a meeting of the salary com$2,000 of salary or fraction thereof 3. Five per ...

ED physician staffing guidelines erroneously attributed to Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO)

Joint Commission announces changes in addressing Life Safety Code deficiencies. Effective July 1, 2014: modifications to processing PFIs and equivalencies.