The Joint Commission is eliminating 200 additional standards from its accreditation programs for ambulatory and behavioral health centers, critical access hospitals, laboratories and nursing homes, ...

The Joint Commission is transforming its accreditation process by reducing the number of requirements by 50% — from 1,551 to 774 standards — in its most significant rewrite since Medicare was ...

This is a preview of Access Health—Tap here to get this newsletter delivered straight to your inbox. I've settled on my word of the week: transparency. Over the last seven days, my schedule has looked ...

The Joint Commission will review and analyze each of its quality standards with an eye toward revising or eliminating measures to better focus on patient safety and support overwhelmed healthcare ...

Several Joint Commission standards for hospitals have embarrassingly low compliance rates. Two Joint Commission experts — Jerry Gervais, CHFM, CHSP, an engineer and associate director in the Joint ...

Ahead of National Quality Week, the Joint Commission released eight key facts about approving new accreditation standards. 1. Identifying emerging quality and safety issues through scientific ...