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Joint Commission elaborates on accreditation reports, suicide risks, and toilet seats

December 1, 2017
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28 Issue 12
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Infection Control, Policies and Procedures, Behavioral & Mental Health

The 2017 Chicago session of The Joint Commission’s annual Executive Briefings saw a far-ranging discussion on the future of accreditation....Read More »

Surveyors on the lookout for suicide hazards

November 1, 2017
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28 Issue 11
Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Behavioral & Mental Health

While last year The Joint Commission issued a Sentinel Event Alert to hospitals urging them to do a better job of identifying suicidal ideation in...Read More »

Fire doors, drills, and the ED; Joint Commission clarifies Life Safety Code requirements

September 1, 2017
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28 Issue 9
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Environment and Facilities

In May, The Joint Commission issued clarifications on its 2012 Life Safety Code® (LSC)–related requirements for fire doors, fire drills,...Read More »

High- and low-risk devices are all the same to surveyors; New maintenance standards could prove costly for hospitals

August 1, 2017
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28 Issue 8
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

Many were shocked by The Joint Commission’s newest standards and elements of performance (EP) on medical device maintenance. The accreditor will...Read More »

Q&A: What you need to know about compounding medicine

August 1, 2017
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28 Issue 8
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Quality & Errors

The Joint Commission unveiled a new Medication Compounding Certification (MCC) program in January with the goal of reducing the harm stemming from...Read More »

Three keys to preventing workplace violence

July 14, 2017
Patient Safety Monitor Journal - Volume 18 Issue 7
Environment and Facilities, Leadership & Finance, Policies and Procedures, Workplace safety

This spring, Ann Scott Blouin, RN, PhD, FACHE, executive vice president of The Joint Commission, wrote a...Read More »

Holding hospitals for ransom; The WannaCry virus and the lack of cybersecurity in hospitals

July 11, 2017
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28 Issue 7
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Patient Safety, Quality & Errors

Over the course of one weekend in May, more than 300,000 computers in 150 countries were held hostage by a ransomware virus called “WannaCry.” The...Read More »

Q&A: Changes to Joint Commission maintenance standards and AEMs

July 11, 2017
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28 Issue 7
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities

Editor’s note: The following is an edited Q&A from the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation’s (AAMI...Read More »

Joint Commission EC and LS chapter revisions in the works for 2018

June 1, 2017
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28 Issue 6
Environment and Facilities, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

After a year of anticipation, Joint Commission surveyors finally started checking for compliance with the 2012 Life Safety Code® (LSC) and Health...Read More »

SAFER in practice; Thoughts on Joint Commission's new scoring matrix

June 1, 2017
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 28 Issue 6
Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Environment and Facilities, Quality & Errors

There's been much ado about The Joint Commission's new scoring system, the Survey Analysis for Evaluating Risk (SAFER) matrix. The matrix is a 3 x...Read More »

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