A New Scoring Methodology Project REFRESH (see related articles on pages 3 and 5), the Joint Commission’s multiphase process improvement project, includes a transformative approach for identifying and communicating risk levels associated with deficiencies cited during surveys. This Survey Analysis for Evaluating Risk (SAFER) approach provides organizations with additional information related to...

Background: The health system is responsible for providing services as well everyone to access that are safe and good quality. Currently, problems changeable complex, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, which also related legislation. Therefore, a quality critical.Methods: This Cross-sectional survey study was conducted from July 2021 - March 2023 using sample of 384 11 community hospitals. Spear...

BACKGROUND This systematic review seeks to define the general advantages and disadvan-tages of accreditation programs to assist in choosing the most appropriate approach. METHOD Systematic search of SID, Ovid Medline & PubMed databases was conducted by the keywords of accreditation, hospital, medical practice, clinic, accreditation models, health care and Persian meanings. From 2379 initial a...

INTRODUCTION Hospital accreditation can be an incentive to improve occupational health and safety (OHS) performance. OBJECTIVE This study assesses the relationship between status of accreditation among private Lebanese hospitals and compliance with OHS accreditation standards. METHODS A survey was administered to 68 private Lebanese hospitals to assess accreditation status and specific indi...

Background and Objective: Hospitals play an important role in protecting the health and survival of people during disasters. Despite the development of risk management programs worldwide in recent years, hospital preparedness in disasters is low and one reason for that is the lack of hospital standards for disaster preparedness. This study aims to develop hospital accreditation standards for ho...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether accredited hospitals maintain quality and patient safety standards over the accreditation cycle by testing a life cycle explanation of accreditation on quality measures. Four distinct phases of the accreditation life cycle were defined based on the Joint Commission International process. Predictions concerning the time series trend of compliance during each phase w...

To be eligible to receive payment from Medicare, hospitals must be certified to meet certain conditions. Hospitals may gain such credentials by choosing to be reviewed by a state certification agency under contract to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services or to be accredited by either the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations or the American Osteopathic Associatio...

In 2014, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), American Osteopathic Association (AOA), and American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine approved a single accreditation system for graduate medical education in the United States. For osteopathic graduate medical education programs transitioning to ACGME accreditation, this change has been met with a mixture...

Status Following Cessation of Services The Joint Commission recently updated two policies— Accreditation Status of Organizations That Cease Services After a Disaster and Accreditation Status of Organizations That Cease Services or Do Not Have Patients for a Period of Time—as a result of an ongoing review of accreditationrelated policies. The updated language is effective immediately for all acc...