BACKGROUND Evaluations of the impact of hospital accreditation have been previously hampered by the lack of nationally standardized data. One way to assess this impact is to compare accreditation status with other evidence-based measures of quality, such as the process measures now publicly reported by The Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). OBJECTIVES T...

Introduction: Medical tourism is one of the competitive and income industries in world and has the ability to attract tourists in the health sector and international markets are totally dependent on international accreditation. This study has been done to evaluate the capabilities of active public and private hospitals in Shiraz regarding attraction of tourists’ base on accredi...

The initial Standards by the JCAH (now the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, or JCAHO) required accredited hospitals to have organized medical staffs. The medical staff was responsible for overseeing the clinical practice and quality of care provided by physicians at the hospital. While recognizing the ultimate responsibility for patient care in a hospital is vested...

reapplied to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for deeming authority for accredited hospitals. In response to CMS’s winter 2014 and spring 2014 reviews of its application, The Joint Commission developed and revised several elements of performance (EPs) for hospitals and for rehabilitation and psychiatric distinct part units in critical access hospitals. The revisions, which are...

introduction: health tourism is an organized travel we make from where we live to another place to keep, regain, and improve physical and mental health. it can be also a national strategy to improve national income and some believe that it can be an integral part of national security. the present study is an attempt to determine the relationship between observance of the standards of internatio...

Effective July 1, 2015, The Joint Commission has added and revised several requirements for hospitals and revised one requirement for critical access hospitals to better align with changes made in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions of Participation (CoPs) for hospitals. The CoP changes resulted from the May 12, 2014, final rule, which was part of CMS’s effort to remov...

The creation of health care standards by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) in a defined area with known events follows a predictable process. A problem area (e.g., hand hygiene) is identified from multiple sources. The JCAHO then calls together experts from around the country, and through debate and the comparison of positions of various people within the...