From the AHAP Blog: Joint Commission reinstates anti-discrimination requirements to Leadership standards

The Joint Commission has announced it will reinstate an anti-discrimination requirement which had previously been removed.

As of July 1, 2010, this requirement—deleted originally in 2003 with the thought that it was covered under other, existing standards—will be reinstated due to research on who those requirements cover. In fact, existing requirements usually only effect employees, and thus physicians, who are most often not employees of the hospital, were not covered under the requirements.

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