Healthcare Regulatory Paper Joint Commission in Prisons Rein Denise Fox 06/04/2012 The health care industry has to have a good leadership foundation to carry out rules, regulations, and procedures. It is important for the success of any organization. In a healthcare organization, good leadership is more than just important; it is significant to the organization’s success. The Joint Commission is an organization which requires that the health care industry provides and maintains a safe environment
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Write an essay discussing the following 1. The role of the Joint Commission in accrediting medical facilities The Joint Commission was designed to help to improve the quality of patient care by assisting international health care organizations, public health agencies, health ministries and others evaluate, improve and demonstrate the quality of patient care and enhance patient safety in more than 60 countries. The Joint Commission seeks to continuously improve health care for the public as well
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action plan to address the organization’s improvement while maintaining compliance from a Joint Commission standard. Accreditation Audit: AFT Task 3 Nightingale Hospital is preparing to devise a mock tracer methodology to assess the organizations’ current compliance with Joint Commission Standards. A tracer methodology follows a patient through the course of care and evaluates all aspects of care (Joint Commission E-dition, 2014). This method allows a quick overview of a patient through the flow of
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expectations during our next Joint Commission visit. Before we address the aspects of our upcoming visit from Joint Commission, we must address the foundation of what Joint Commission is. One of the definitions of Joint Commission is, “Joint Commission Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) is an organization that develops and maintains standards to promote compliance in regards to acceptable levels of care that should be given to patients” (About the Joint Commission). Accreditation from
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Executive Summary - Infection Control and Prevention Current Compliance Status for Joint Commission Accreditation Nightingale Community Hospital is committed to providing healthcare excellence, a healing environment and to be the choice for patient care. In order to continue to provide quality healthcare services in accordance with our values of safety, community, teamwork, and accountability Joint Commission Accreditation provides guidelines and standards for the Priority Focus Areas (PFA)
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healthcare fields. American College of Surgeons started a standardization of practices in the healthcare fields. This later developed with various other adjoining forces into what we know today as the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals. In 1987, this evolved into the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). This accrediting agency had influences among the ambulatory care, assisted living, home health, behavioral, health, laboratories, long term care
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not the best. There was oxygen tanks found on the floor and not secured. There was also dusty air vents in the patients room and in the clean utility room. The tracer tips states that all oxygen tanks need to be stored in secure stands. The Joint Commission hospital accreditation requirements for environment of care (EC.02.06.01), requires that the hospital establishes and maintains a safe, functional environment, which includes how the environment is arranged and maintained to foster patient safety
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Joint Commission Eligibility for Hospital Accreditation, the organization must be in the United States or its territories, or if outside the United States, is operated by the U.S. government or under a charter of the U.S. Congress. For all programs by law the organization has a facility license or registration to conduct its scope of services. The organization can demonstrate that it continually assesses and improves the quality of its care, treatment, and/or services. .The organization identifies
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Executive Summary: Nightingale Community Hospital Joint Commission Compliance Standards for Communication Focus Area Recently there has been much media focus on preventable medical errors. Any google search will produce a multitude of news articles that all report that preventable medical errors is now the third leading cause of death in the United States. Poor communication plays a role in most if not all of these errors. In fact the Joint Commission (2012) has published that an estimated 80% of
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summary of the accreditation audit is presented to the senior leadership to outline the compliance, plan of compliance and institution of the hospital under the reviewed focus area of Information Management as per the Joint Commission Standards. COMPLIANCE STATUS. The Joint Commission Standard IM 02.02.01 requires that the hospital effectively manages the collection of health information. Nightingale Community Hospital is in compliance with this standard under its patient care policy which specifies
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