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Focus on Compliance: Documenting Standards
Advocacy
Achieve compliance with Joint Commission Documentation Standards. Learn how to effectively document standards with our comprehensive guide.
Joint Commission advises on community engagement to promote equity
This week, the Joint Commission released a Quick Safety advisory, which provides four strategies to help hospitals and medical centers support the needs of diverse populations
AHA comments on proposed rule for accrediting organizations
Commenting April 12 on a proposed rule to strengthen oversight of accrediting organizations, AHA told the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services it supports requiring accrediting organizations to use Medicare’s Conditions of Participation and Conditions for Coverage as their minimum accreditation standards, and to provide an explicit crosswalk of their standards with relevant Medicare regulations.
AHA Comments on CMS Proposal on Accrediting Organization Oversight
AHA comments on CMS’ proposals to strengthen the agency’s oversight of accrediting organizations.
Business Occupancy Survey Simplification Tool
Use this self-assessment tool to prepare your non-hospital business occupancies for survey by accreditations organizations.
National Quality Forum affiliates with Joint Commission
The National Quality Forum will join the Joint Commission, while maintaining its independence in convening and developing consensus-based measures, the organizations announced Aug. 16.
Joint Commission further streamlines standards
Effective Aug. 27, the Joint Commission will eliminate or consolidate over 200 more accreditation standards in its hospital and other accreditation programs as part of an initiative to retire standards that go beyond the Medicare conditions of participation and don’t add value.
Hospital leader named to Joint Commission Board
The Joint Commission recently appointed Susan Fox, president and CEO of White Plains Hospital in New York, to its Board of Commissioners effective Jan. 1.
Joint Commission Standards Review: Fewer, More Meaningful Requirements
The past couple of years have not been easy for health care. As health systems and hospitals continue to recover from the financial, physical and emotional burdens brought on by COVID-19, they also face immense challenges — including staffing shortages and health care worker burnout.
The Joint Commission revises quality, safety standards
The Joint Commission announced plans to revise 56 standards during the first review cycle of 2023 according to an article in Modern Healthcare.