The Joint Commission has kicked off a plan to explore and implement accreditation and certification changes for children’s hospitals specific to the needs of their younger patients. The goal, the ...

The Joint Commission has unveiled an overhaul to its healthcare accreditation and certification process that will cut hundreds of requirements for hospitals, streamline patient safety practices and ...

The Joint Commission is undergoing sweeping overhaul of its standards, eliminating 168 standards (14 percent) and revising another 14 standards. The organization is looking to make its accreditation ...

The Joint Commission has revised medication management standard MM.02.01.01, element of performance 2, to expand medication selection criteria to include specific populations in hospitals, according ...

David W. Baker, MD, executive vice president of healthcare quality evaluation for the Joint Commission, has released a statement to clear up any misunderstandings people may have regarding the ...

WATSEKA — Iroquois Memorial Hospital announced recently that its laboratory has successfully passed a rigorous Joint ...

A leading nurse organization applauded the Joint Commission's latest hospital performance goals, which elevated the issue of nurse staffing and linked it to patient safety. In a press release, the ...

The Joint Commission, which accredits hospitals across the country, eliminated 55 administrative positions last week in its Oakbrook Terrace central office, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday. The Joint ...

The Joint Commission this week announced its new Telehealth Accreditation Program for eligible hospitals, ambulatory and behavioral healthcare organizations. The program, with an effective date of ...

A nationwide health-care safety inspection group preliminarily denied accreditation last week to Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center in Maryland, the maximum-security psychiatric facility that has been ...

The Joint Commission has identified the top five Joint Commission requirements that were most frequently identified as “not compliant” for the first half of 2011 for accredited organizations and ...