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JCAHO,
abbreviation for Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) a private, nonprofit organization whose mission is to continuously improve the safety and quality of care provided to the public; it does this through the provision of health accreditation and related services that support performance improvement in health care organizations. JCAHO is governed by a 28-member Board of Commissioners that includes nurses, physicians, consumers, medical directors, administrators, providers, employers, labor representatives, health plan leaders, quality experts, ethicists, health insurance administrators, and educators. The corporate members of JCAHO are the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine, the American College of Surgeons, the American Dental Association, the American Hospital Association, and the American Medical Association.
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HCFA Hospital-Acquired Infections JCAHO/TJC Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations National Committee for Quality Assurance organization remedial proficiency testing Sentinel Event site visit | The schemes sounds pretty clever, until you realize that a JCAHO visit to a hospital is akin to an OSHA inspection of a factory; once a person identifies him or herself as a representative of JCAHO, the facility essentially goes on red alert, and that person attracts escorts and the attention of the whole facility. The new standards, which will be effective in July 2005, were revised for the Laboratory Accreditation Program and adopted for the Ambulatory Care, Critical Access Hospital and Hospital Accreditation Programs, according to JCAHO Online. GAO analyzed CMS data on hospitals state surveyors found to have deficiencies in Medicare requirements that JCAHO surveyors did not detect, analyzed CMS's measure of JCAHO's ability to detect noncompliance with Medicare requirements, and interviewed JCAHO officials. |
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