Patient mortality drops during inspections — Joint Commission responds to study The Joint Commission urges healthcare organizations to treat every week like it is survey week in the wake of a study ...

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) – The Holston Valley Medical Center received a surprise inspection this week that led to the hospital receiving accreditation by a third-party agency. The inspection was done ...

The Joint Commission, accreditor of thousands of U.S. healthcare facilities, is set to resume its surveys in June as hospitals and health systems re-open to visitors and begin to return hospital ...

The study, in JAMA Internal Medicine, used records of Medicare admissions from 2008 to 2012 at 1,984 hospitals. During that time, there were 244,787 admissions during Joint Commission inspections, and ...