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- Accreditation Participation Requirements (APR)
- Environment of Care (EC)
- Emergency Management (EM)
- Human Resources (HR)
- Infection Prevention and Control (IC)
- Information Management (IM)
- Leadership (LD)
- Life Safety (LS)
- Medication Management (MM)
- National Patient Safety Goals (NPSG)
- Provision of Care, Treatment, and Services (PC)
- Performance Improvement (PI)
- Record of Care, Treatment, and Services (RC)
- Rights and Responsibilities of the Individual (RI)
- Waived Testing (WT)
Medicare/Medicaid Certification-Based Long Term Care – Accreditation Requirements
This document contains standards, rationales, and elements of performance (EPs) to those long term care organizations seeking the Joint Commission’s Medicare/Medicaid certification–based long term care accreditation.
This subset of Joint Commission long term care accreditation standards has been identified for onsite review under the Medicare/Medicaid certification–based long term care accreditation option. These standards go beyond the Conditions of Participation for Skilled Nursing Facilities/Nursing Facilities and address areas that are typically not evaluated during the state agency certification survey. This path to long term care accreditation focuses on systems and processes that support organization safety, performance improvement, resident and family education, credentialing and privileging of licensed independent practitioners, pain management, and point-of-care testing (POCT)
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