Accreditation Updates
To help provide you with latest accreditation information from Joint Commission Resources, we’ve created brief, informative video segments on the latest JCR updates.
Accreditation Update: Leadership and Patient Safety
A new Joint Commission Sentinel Event Alert issued in August urges health care leaders to increase efforts to prevent errors by taking the zero-defect approach used in other high-risk industries such as aviation and nuclear energy.
The Joint Commission advocates greater involvement of health care trustees, executives, and physician leaders, contending that the overall safety and effectiveness of a health care facility depends on administrative and clinical leaders who set the tone, create the culture, and drive improvements.
To improve patient safety, the Joint Commission’s Sentinel Event Alert recommends that the governing body, chief executive officer, senior managers, and medical staff leaders take a series of 14 specific steps.
This Accreditation Update will review the 14 specific steps and discuss a revision made to the section titled “Appropriate Evaluation Of Adverse Events And Discipline” of Sentinel Event Alert Issue 43.
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Joint Commission Resources Quality and Safety Network
Accreditation Update: What's New At The Center For Transforming Healthcare
Established in 2009, the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare aims to solve health care’s most critical safety and quality problems. The Center is introducing a first of its kind approach to identify, create and implement consistent safety solutions that address quality and safety challenges facing health care organizations. The Joint Commission will then share these proven effective solutions with all health care organizations it accredits and certifies
We encourage you to invite all hospital personnel managing quality and safety issues to attend.
Accreditation Update: The Hand Hygiene Project
In December 2008, the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare began work on its first improvement project: addressing failures in hand hygiene. The Hand Hygiene Project focuses on improving and sustaining hand hygiene compliance. Hand hygiene is critically important to safe, high quality patient care. Unfortunately, many infections are transmitted by health care personnel. To sustain improvement and make a difference, a simple slogan or campaign is not enough; demanding that health care workers try harder is not the answer. Comprehensive, systematic, and sustainable change is the only solution.
We encourage you to invite all hospital personnel to view this month's Accreditation Update to see what steps The Joint Commission is taking to help fight infection.
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Accreditation Update: Hand-Off Communications
In August 2009, The Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare began work on its second improvement project: improving the quality of hand-off communications. A hand-off is the transfer and acceptance of patient care responsibilities achieved through effective communication. Selected by eight leading hospitals and health systems, the Hand-Off Communications project team includes hospital leadership, clinicians and staff, and the Center’s Black Belts and Green Belts.
We encourage you to invite all hospital personnel to view this month's Accreditation Update to see what steps The Joint Commission is taking to help improve patient care through effective communication.
