Regulatory paper based on Joint Commission/Prison Health
HCS 430

Ensuring health care practitioners and facilities promote safety, legal compliance, and quality patient services. If regulations with accreditation were not sufficient in health care, safety comfort would not be provided to patients/clients. JCAHO Also known as Joint Commission Accreditation health care organization which conducts survey done on site that complies as well verify the continuous standards of improvement for joint commission.
The JCAHO ensures that health care providers and facilities are maintaining the required standards of care in place by the regulatory agency. JCAHO is constantly providing the most update in improvements in medical facilities History of JCAHO of Health Care Organizations In 1910, Ernest A. Codman, M.D., found that many health care practitioners were practicing medicine that was outside their scope of training. It was then that he “proposed the end result system of hospital standardization. Codman thought that if hospitals were to track every patient and the patient were treated long enough it could be determined whether the treatment was effective and use the results to improve care In 1913, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) was established and standards for hospitals were developed in the early 1917 by ACS.
In 1918, the Surgeons’ of American college began first inspection within hospitals and found that only 89 out of 692 hospitals met the minimum standard requirements. Hospitals was established as an independent non-profit organization this took place in the fifty’s on accreditation the joint commission, with the purpose of voluntary accrediting hospitals. Since then hospitals has matured since 1951 to become the leading provider or accrediting organization of health care facility. In order for the public to have high quality and safety, a