According to the Alzheimer’s Association®, 46% of nursing home residents and 42% of individuals in residential care facilities, including assisted living communities, live with Alzheimer’s or other dementias. To help ensure these individuals receive the highest quality of care, The Joint Commission proudly partners with the Alzheimer’s Association on its Memory Care Certification for the Nursing Care Center and Assisted Living Community accreditation programs. This voluntary, specialty certification helps organizations minimize risk and improve care for those with all levels of cognitive impairment.
This June, in support of Alzheimer’s and Brain Awareness month, The Joint Commission encourages you to join in the fight to end Alzheimer’s. Here are some ways the Alzheimer’s Association suggests getting involved:
- Adopt 10 healthy habits to take positive actions for your brain.
- Dress in purple and share your story on social media using the hashtag #ENDALZ.
- Participate in a fundraising event, such as Walk to End Alzheimer’s®.
- Access education programs and dementia care resources.
- Volunteer for or donate to the Alzheimer’s Association.
- Ask your congressperson to support meaningful policy changes.
- Accelerate Alzheimer’s and dementia research.
To learn more visit alz.org/abam.
Registration is now open for two rescheduled Expert to Expert webinars focusing on electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) for acute kidney injury and excessive radiation dose or inadequate image quality in CT scans.
The Expert to Expert webinar series provides a deep dive into measure intent, logic and other clinical/technical aspects of eCQMs to support hospital quality improvement activities. These free, publicly available webinars prepare stakeholders to implement eCQMs effective for the 2025 reporting year and incorporate content from The Joint Commission, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Mathematica and other measure stewards.
Each webinar will review the new measure’s intent and specifications, including the initial patient population, denominator, exclusions, numerator, data elements and logic. Common questions from the ASTP/ONC Project Tracking System (Jira) and other sources will be addressed. Additionally, participants will be able to ask questions during a live Q&A with the subject matter experts/measure stewards.
Expert to Expert webinars are intended for a technical audience, such as EHR report writers, hospital IT staff engaged in eCQM implementation, clinical informaticists, EHR analysts and vendor staff who support hospitals in eCQM use. Clinical staff attending should understand technical eCQM implementation concepts and language.
See the registration pages for details on continuing education credit and learning objectives.
Hospital Harm: Acute Kidney Injury eCQM
Date: June 12, 2025
Excessive Radiation Dose or Inadequate Image Quality for Diagnostic Computed Tomography (CT) in Adults eCQM (for Both Inpatient and Outpatient Settings)
Date: June 18, 2025
On June 2, 2025, NQF began seeking public comments as part of its consensus-based process to update its Serious Reportable Events (SRE) list. The SRE list is a set of patient safety events that are serious and largely preventable and may indicate a problem with a healthcare setting’s safety systems.
Patients, advocates, stakeholders and the public at large are invited to share their thoughts on the event descriptions during the public comment period, which ends July 1, 2025. Comments will inform SRE-specific guidance provided in a final report planned for release in fall 2025. For more information, see the Request for Public Comment Document, which can be downloaded from the NQF website.
Please contact the NQF team at patientsafety@qualityforum.org with questions.