Recipients of both award programs will be honored at UNIFY ™, Joint Commission’s annual thought leadership conference. UNIFY 2026 will take place Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2026, in Washington, D.C.

The Joint Commission rolled out significant changes in 2025, including plans to cut accreditation standards in half, a new nurse staffing performance requirement and updates to its hospital survey ...

CHEYENNE – Cheyenne Regional Medical Center (CRMC) has earned the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for Sepsis Certification by demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance ...

WORCESTER — A national accrediting agency found "requirements for improvement" during a June visit to Saint Vincent Hospital, in another development in the ongoing dispute involving the Massachusetts ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Austin Frakt, previously head of health policy research at ...

Hello, and welcome to A Health I'm your host, Rob Lott. Friends, it's time for another very special episode of A Health Odyssey. As folks know, we typically host the authors of research papers ...

The Joint Commission July 29 announced an initiative to address “gaps” in how children’s hospitals are accredited and certified. The program will remove or revise inapplicable standards to better suit ...

The Joint Commission—the health care industry's oldest, largest accreditation and certification organization—is taking bold steps to modernize its standards and processes. Since early May, the ...