Joint Commission Discusses Cooperative Accreditation Agreements

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...

readiness of hospitals with quality management systems based on joint commission on accreditation standards

introduction: recently, the accreditation program has been used increasingly by an emphasis on patient safety. in iran, efforts have been made to establish the accreditation program. in 2011, it replaced previous standards of traditional evaluation system. as the impact of accreditation plan need internal self assessment against minimal standards, this study aimed to survey the readiness of sel...

Joint Commission launches nursing and rehabilitation center accreditation program. Program replaces long-term care accreditation and offers specialty certification option.

reinvention of its Long Term Care Accreditation Program, The Joint Commission launched the new Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Accreditation Program and option for specialty certification. The new program is designed to address the changing market conditions faced by long term care organizations, which are providing increasingly complex nursing care as well as rehabilitative and other service...

Hospital Quality Oversight by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

An Audit of Emergency Department Accreditation Based on Joint Commission International Standards (JCI)

INTRODUCTION Despite thousands of years from creation of medical knowledge, it not much passes from founding the health care systems. Accreditation is an effective mechanism for performance evaluation, quality enhancement, and the safety of health care systems. This study was conducted to assess the results of emergency department (ED) accreditation in Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital, Tehran, Iran, ...