The concept of this book is taken from the feature called, “Ask the Joint Commission,” in the journal, Hospital Pharmacy, written by Darryl Rich, a pharmacist from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, who is an expert on this topic. The same question and answer format is used in Ask the Joint Commission: Understanding JCAHO Requirements for Hospital Pharmacies, whi...

We examined the association between JCAHO accreditation of hospitals, those hospitals' quality of care, and survival among Medicare patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction. Hospitals not surveyed by JCAHO had, on average, lower quality (less likely to use aspirin, beta-blockers, and reperfusion therapy) and higher thirty-day mortality rates than did surveyed hospitals. However, th...

BACKGROUND The primary health care has notable effects on community health and accreditation is one of the appropriate evaluation methods that led to health system performance improvement, therefore, this study aims to developing of national accreditation model for rural health centers in Iran Health System. METHODS Firstly the suitable accreditation models selected to benchmarking worldwide ...

Various organizations are engaged in activities related to assessing the quality of medical care, This appendix describes the efforts of three groups: the American Medical Association (AMA); the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO); and utilization and quality control peer review organizations (PROS). As a professional organization, a nonprofit accrediting b...

Medical errors do not necessarily represent negligence. Even when a mental health professional deviates from the standard of care, minor injury to a patient is unlikely to result in a lawsuit. The standard of care is not the same as the quality of care. Quality of care refers to the total care a patient receives, the patient's health care decisions, and the available mental health services. As ...

Joint Commission–accredited ambulatory care organizations now have the option of expanding their accreditation to include the Primary Care Medical Home designation beginning July 1, 2011. The Joint Commission’s Board of Commissioners recently approved the Primary Care Medical Home option, which will help ambulatory care organizations improve care coordination, increase patient satisfaction, and...

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...

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...

The risk of patients receiving opioids without adequate monitoring and resulting in adverse outcomes has been noted by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices. More aggressive opioid analgesia often is clinically indicated, but it is not without risk. Adverse drug events due to opioids have increased with the recent adoption of pain management standards by the Joint Commission on Accreditat...