The Joint Commission news and information

The Joint Commission awarded its first comprehensive stroke center certification to the Stanford Stroke Center at Stanford Hospital & Clinics in Palo Alto, Calif.
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In a news conference announcing the Joint Commission's latest list of top performers in quality and safety, President Dr. Mark Chassin contrasted his organization's list with others that assign individual quality ratings or letter grades to hospitals.
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Hospitals increasingly ask patients to pay a medical bill when they arrive or before they leave. Here's a look at how one Minnesota hospital went too far to collect bills and violated Medicare rules and a law that safeguards access to emergency medical care, regardless of ability to pay.
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The Joint Commission announced it has launched an advanced certification program geared specifically toward stroke centers that care for complex cases.
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The accreditation industry is beginning to feel the ripple effects of the rapid growth of accountable care organizations and other payment models, experts say.
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The Joint Commission is warning hospitals about the risks of adverse events associated with opioid drugs and is urging providers to take action to prevent opioid-related harm or death.
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The Joint Commission has an online guide for critical-access hospitals that use unlicensed scribes to help physicians and other licensed healthcare professionals document patient encounters in an electronic health-record system.
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As it gears up to expand its optional medical-home certification to include hospitals, the Joint Commission is asking for input from the field on how best to tailor the program.
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Virtua, a four-hospital system serving southern New Jersey, is so deeply committed to information technology that when it opened a new data center, the board of trustees held a meeting there, sitting among the rows of servers. That same board has a standing IT committee that meets every two months,...
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The Joint Commission, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill., is making a change in oversight of its accreditation and certification operations, creating a new position of chief operating officer for the division and naming Mark Pelletier the acting COO of the division until a search to fill the job is completed.
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