The Joint Commission’s Accreditation Committee approved the 2014 accreditation and certification decision rules for all accreditation and certification programs. The revised accreditation decision rules are effective for surveys as of January 1, 2014, while the revised certification decision rules are effective immediately. Revisions are shown in the boxes on pages 3–7 for accreditation program...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether an accreditation program facilitates healthcare organizations (HCOs) to evolve and maintain high-performance human resource management (HRM) systems. DESIGN Cross-sectional multimethod study. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Healthcare organizations participating in the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program (EQuIP 4) b...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this paper is to identify and suggest a number of performance measures to facilitate the evaluation of accreditation programs in healthcare. METHODS The paper is based on an exploratory research which has used qualitative methods, including snowball sampling technique, email interview and thematic content analysis. PARTICIPANTS Respondents (experts and professionals...

BACKGROUND Evaluations of the impact of hospital accreditation have been previously hampered by the lack of nationally standardized data. One way to assess this impact is to compare accreditation status with other evidence-based measures of quality, such as the process measures now publicly reported by The Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). OBJECTIVES T...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Despite evidence that primary stroke center (PSC) certification is associated with improvements in care and outcome, only a minority of hospitals have achieved this certification. We sought to determine hospital-based factors associated with achievement of PSC certification. METHODS We used the 2011 American Hospital Association survey and the 2010 national census for p...

Generic biologics (e.g., biosimilars) and medication safety related to Joint Commission hospital accreditation standards.

within its Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) for behavioral health care organizations. The Joint Commission added five new elements of performance (EPs) and two new Notes—and edited an existing EP—to maintain alignment with Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) regulations and guidelines and thus retain its status as a Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)–approv...

glossary and in a Leadership standard in the Comprehensive Accreditation Manuals has been revised to behaviors that undermine a culture of safety. This change is applicable to the ambulatory care, behavioral health care, critical access hospital, home care, hospital, laboratory, long term care, and office-based surgery accreditation programs. The Joint Commission introduced revisions in 2009 to...

administrators, and consumers often challenge recreational therapy (RT) practitioners about their practice and the interventions that they use to produce client outcomes. “Federal regulatory agencies [eg, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)] and accreditation bodies [eg, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO)] expect that the best available evide...