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Home Care

Home Care Summer Webinar Sessions

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Looking to Expand Your Business Horizons? Our free webinars can help you learn how to build and maintain quality as you plan for future growth! Space is limited! Register online today.

Related Topics: Home Care, Webinar

05/16/2013

Speak Up: What You Should Know About Pain Management

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There are many different causes and kinds of pain. Pain can be caused by injury, illness, sickness, disease or surgery. Treating pain is the responsibility of your doctor, Nurses and other caregivers.

Related Topics: Speak Up, Pain Management, Transitions of Care Patient Information, General Public, Patient Education

05/16/2013

Laboratory Services

Laboratory Standards Sampler

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To help familiarize you with the standards while you are in the early stages of exploring accreditation, The Joint Commission has prepared this resource, The Laboratory Accreditation Standards Sampler.

Related Topics: Standards Sampler, Laboratory Services

05/14/2013

Laboratory Services

Answers to Commonly Asked Questions about Laboratory Standards

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Questions (and answers!) that lab customers and colleagues frequently ask our lab team. Hopefully you and your organization will find them helpful.

Related Topics: Laboratory Services, Q&A, Standards

05/14/2013

Advanced Certification , Disease-Specific Care

Advanced Certification in Heart Failure: Standardized Performance Measures

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The Joint Commission has approved a set of standardized performance measures for Disease Specific Care Advanced Certification in Heart Failure (ACHF). These measures have been developed to better evaluate the care provided to the Heart Failure patient with an emphasis on transitions of care.

Related Topics: Patient Safety, Heart Failure, Advanced Certification, Disease-Specific Care, Other Measures

05/13/2013

Heart Failure

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Related Topics: Core Measure Set, Transitions of Care and Performance Measurement, Performance Measurement

05/13/2013

Laboratory Services

Facts about Laboratory Accreditation

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The Joint Commission has been evaluating and accrediting hospital laboratory services since 1979 and freestanding laboratories since 1995.

Related Topics: Lab Advantage, Laboratory Accreditation, Fact Sheets, Proficiency Testing

05/13/2013

Ambulatory Health Care

Helping You Choose Quality Ambulatory Care

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Choosing quality health care services for yourself, a family member or a close friend is one of the most important decisions you will ever make.

Related Topics: Helping You Choose Guides, General Public, Ambulatory Health Care, How to Choose an Accreditor, Patient Education

05/08/2013

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals

Alarm safety webinar – May 1, 2013

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Sentinel Event Alert Issue 50: Medical device alarm safety in hospitals, highlights important issues and approaches to improving safety surrounding alarm-equipped medical devices in hospitals.

Related Topics: Alarm Safety, Safety and Quality Webinar Replays, Sentinel Event, Critical Access Hospital, Hospital

05/02/2013

Home Care

Revisions to Applicability of EC Requirements for Freestanding Ambulatory Infusion and Rehabilitation Technology Settings in the Home Care Program

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Joint Commission Requirement

Related Topics: 2013 Joint Commission Requirement

05/01/2013

Ambulatory Health Care, Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, Office-Based Surgery

Surveyors Stop Scoring for Failure to Measure Surgical Site Infection Rates Past 30 Days

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Joint Commission Requirement

Related Topics: 2013 Joint Commission Requirement, Implantable Devices, Surgical Site Infection

05/01/2013

Advanced Certification , Palliative Care

Facts about the Advanced Certification Program for Palliative Care

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Launched in September 2011, The Joint Commission’s Advanced Certification Program for Palliative Care recognizes hospital inpatient programs that demonstrate exceptional patient and family-centered care and optimize the quality of life for patients (both adult and pediatric) with serious illness.

Related Topics: Palliative Care, Certification Fact Sheets, Advanced Certification

04/30/2013

International Certification, International Accreditation

Facts about Joint Commission International

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Joint Commission International (JCI) was established in 1994 as a division of Joint Commission Resources, Inc. (JCR), a private, not-for-profit affiliate of The Joint Commission.

Related Topics: Corporate Fact Sheets, About The Joint Commission, Joint Commission International, Fact Sheets

04/29/2013

Laboratory Services

Slides and Audio from the April 23, 2013 Lab Teleconference

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Miss the April 23, 2013 teleconference: What's New and Improved for 2013? You can listen to a recording and view the slideshow.

Related Topics: Laboratory Services, Previous Webinar

04/25/2013

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals

PCMH Self Assessment

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This tool is a useful document that may be helpful as you pursue PCMH certification. It assesses Elements of Performance (EPs) which are the actions, processes and structures that must be implemented to achieve the standard.

Related Topics: Primary Care Medical Home Certification Option, Eligibility , Hospital, Critical Access Hospital

04/23/2013

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals

Hospital PCMH NCQA Crosswalk

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This tool, prepared by The Joint Commission, compares the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) general standard areas for its 2011 version of the Patient-Centered Medical Home to the specific Joint Commission requirements for its Primary Care Medical Home.

Related Topics: Critical Access Hospital, Hospital, Primary Care Medical Home Certification Option, Comparisons

04/23/2013

Home Care

Accreditation for Infusion Pharmacy

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To meet our home infusion pharmacy standards, a pharmacy must provide a full spectrum assessment, care planning, reassessment and performance improvement activities.

Related Topics: Infusion, Pharmacy

04/22/2013

Laboratory Services

Lab Stat News - April 2013

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Some quick news for labs interested in accreditation or currently accredited by The Joint Commission.

Related Topics: Laboratory Services, Quick News and Tips for Labs

04/22/2013

Behavioral Health Care

Facts about Behavioral Health Home Certification

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The Joint Commission is developing a new Behavioral Health Home Certification product to recognize organizations that have successfully integrated primary physical and behavioral health care.

Related Topics: Behavioral Health Care, Behavioral Health Home, Certification Fact Sheets

04/19/2013

Comprehensive Stroke Certification Fees and Benefits

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The Joint Commission and American Heart Association / American Stroke Association’s Comprehensive Stroke Center Certification includes a new and exclusive suite of benefits.

Related Topics: Comprehensive Stroke Center, Benefits, Fees

04/19/2013

Facts about The Joint Commission

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Founded in 1951, The Joint Commission seeks to continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them...

Related Topics: Fact Sheets, About The Joint Commission, Corporate Fact Sheets

04/15/2013

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals

Facts about Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® Program

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Launched in September 2011, The Joint Commission’s Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® program recognizes accredited hospitals that attain excellence on accountability measure performance.

Related Topics: Top Performers

04/15/2013

Critical Access Hospitals

Facts about Critical Access Hospital Accreditation

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The Joint Commission has accredited hospitals for more than 50 years. In 2001, The Joint Commission introduced a new program to accredit critical access hospitals. CAHs are hospitals identified by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services as having met, or eligible to meet, the conditions for...

Related Topics: Accreditation, Critical Access Hospital, Fact Sheets

04/12/2013

Hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals

Sentinel Event Alert Issue 50: Medical device alarm safety in hospitals

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Many medical devices have alarm systems. These alarm-equipped devices are essential to providing safe care to patients in many health care settings; clinicians depend on these devices for information they need to deliver appropriate care and to guide treatment decisions.

Related Topics: Sentinel Event Alert, Hospital, Critical Access Hospital

04/08/2013

Health Care Staffing Services

Recording of April 4th Teleconference: Joint Commission Staffing Certification for Locum Tenens

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Locum Tenens staffing firms - if you weren't able to listen to our April 4 teleconference, a recording is available.

Related Topics: HCS Previous Teleconferences

04/05/2013

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