IN COMMITTEE OR BOARD REVIEW
- Proposed revisions to align with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) requirements for the hospital program
- Proposed revisions to the National Patient Safety Goals for the ambulatory care, behavioral health care, critical access hospital, home care, hospital, laboratory, long term care, Medicare/Medicaid certification–based long term care, and office-based surgery programs
- Proposed revisions to the Universal Protocol for Preventing Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure and Wrong Person Surgery™ for the ambulatory care, critical access hospital, hospital, and office-based surgery programs
CURRENTLY IN DEVELOPMENT
STANDARDS
- Proposed standards on communication and culturally competent patient-centered care for the hospital program
- Proposed revisions to the staffing effectiveness requirements for the hospital and long term care programs
- Proposed revisions to align with CMS rules for accrediting advanced imaging providers for the ambulatory care program
- Proposed revisions to the “Provision of Care, Treatment, or Services” (PC) chapter for the behavioral health care program.
CURRENTLY IN FIELD REVIEW
- Proposed revisions to the staffing effectiveness requirements for the hospital and long term care programs
JOINT COMMISSION INTERNATIONAL
Field review notifications are sent out electronically as well as posted on the Joint Commission International (JCI) Web site at www.jointcommissioninternational.org. For JCI standards questions, please contact the associate director of Standards Development and Interpretation at jciaccreditation@jcrinc.com.
APPROVED
- Revisions to international ambulatory care standards
- Revisions to international laboratory standards
IN FIELD REVIEW AT JCI
- Revisions to international disease-specific care certification standards