Joint Commission's top ten toughest standards.

Revised timeline for implementation of the Joint Commission's new and revised diagnostic imaging standards.

The Joint Commission's requirements for evaluating contracted home care services.

Contracted services have gained greater emphasis in the home care standards and survey process over the past several years, especially as they relate to the quality and safety of the services provided. This column reviews 2004-2005 standard LD.3.50, its applicable elements of performance, and discusses the Joint Commission's requirements for evaluating the care and services provided by contract...

Adapting The Joint Commission's Seven Foundations of Safe and Effective Transitions of Care to Home

The purpose of this article is to describe The Joint Commission's 7 foundations of safe and effective transitions of care to home: (a) leadership support; (b) multidisciplinary collaboration; (c) early identification of patients/clients at risk; (d) transitional planning; (e) medication management; (f) patient and family action/engagement; and (g) transfer of information. These foundations were...

The Joint Commission's new tobacco-cessation measures--will hospitals do the right thing?

1 And few opportunities hold more promise for increasing the rate of tobacco-use cessation than patient contact with the health care system. Health care visits represent teachable moments when a pa-tient's very real fears and concerns about tobacco use can provide a particularly powerful motivation to quit. The Joint Commission's new Tobacco Cessation Performance Measure-Set took effect on Janu...

Interrelating sentinel event alert #38 with the ACR guidance document on MR safe practices: 2013. An MRI accreditation safety review tool.

When, in 2008, the Joint Commission released its Sentinel Event Alert #38 regarding MRI safety, it joined the ACR's Guidance Document on MR Safe Practices as one of two radiology best-practice documents establishing MR safety protections. However, particularly for MR providers who held both modality-level accreditation from the ACR, and enterprise-level accreditation from the Joint Commission, ...