OBJECTIVE This study explores the views of Lebanese hospitals on the worthiness of accreditation vis-à-vis its associated expenses in addition to examining the type and source of financial investments incurred during the accreditation process. DESIGN Observational cross-sectional design. PARTICIPANTS All private short-stay hospitals registered with the Syndicate of Private Hospitals in Leba...

Effective July 1, 2016, The Joint Commission Behavioral Health Care Accreditation Program will include permanent housing support services standards related to a “housing first” program model. The new standards, which are designed to assist individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, or other behavioral health care issues, will appear in the “Care, Treatment, and Services” ...

BACKGROUND The quality of discharge documentation in patients discharged to rehabilitation centers and other subacute facilities is less well studied than that of patients discharged home. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of information transfer among patients discharged from acute hospitals to subacute facilities across an integrated healthcare delivery system. DESIGN Retrospective evalua...

In June 2014, The Joint Commission announced the postponement of the July 2014 implementation of new and revised diagnostic imaging requirements for accredited hospitals, critical access hospitals, and ambulatory care organizations that provide diagnostic imaging services, including those ambulatory care organizations that have achieved Advanced Diagnostic Imaging certification (see June 2014 P...

P atients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) suffer the paradox of high risk for heart disease and yet reduced use of standard therapies for treatment and prevention of heart disease. The classic example in the literature is the reduced use of standard of care medications after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), now shown in a variety of settings even where the cost of prescription drugs should ...

background and objectives: accreditation is a widely used mechanism to keep organization adherent to the established standards. the aim of the study was to identify barriers towards promotion of accreditation in the iranian hospitals, and exploring the potential overcoming strategies.   methods: a qualitative study design was adopted. data were collected using a questionnaire with open question...

This is the first of a series of upcoming articles which will focus on the Joint Comnmission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH) standards relative to quality assurance in anesthesia services. In this article, the author explains the JCAH standards' impact on anesthesia services. Future articles will utilize case examples of how individual anesthesia departments have improved patient care thro...

Hospital May Lose Federal Funding for Discriminating Against HIVPositive Healthcare Worker A New York state case marks the first time that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has ordered termination of a hospital’s federal funds, some 40% of this hospital’s revenue, for a civil rights violation since the implementation of Medicare’s hospital prospective payment system. This hospit...

We searched PubMed/Medline databases for records including the following phrases “awareness under general anesthesia,” “BIS monitoring,” “BIS monitoring prevents awareness under general anesthesia,” “prevention of awareness during general anesthesia,” and “general anesthesia complications.” The search was limited only to human studies in English and Polish from last 12 years (2004–2016). While ...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY  This study examines the association between nursing home accreditation and deficiency citations.  DESIGN AND METHODS  Data originated from a web-based search of The Joint Commission (TJC) accreditation and On-line Survey Certification of Automated Records from 2002 to 2010. Deficiency citations were divided into 4 categories: resident behavior and facility practices, qua...