JCAH


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JCAH

Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Hospitals.
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NUMJCAH - number of JCAH accredited hospitals in the county
Hospital reserve margins: structural determinants and policy implications using cross-section data
As noted earlier, new QA programs reflect the JCAH manual's increased emphasis on monitoring and documentation:
Keeping on top of quality assurance
This is not feasible with DRGs and the new JCAH focus.
Is quality control quality assurance?
1 Other hospital departments, lacking similar JCAH guidance, are using the nursing standards as a reference point.
Setting up a system of pay for performance
The JCAH Quality Initiative: What Can Hospitals and Physicians Expect?
Outcome management: new name for old idea
All of the hospitals and professional administrators, JCAH accreditation, no affiliation with a medical school, a great deal of overlapping medical staff membership, similar goals and objectives, similar salary structures, comparable occupancy rates, comparable policies and procedures, and patients with nearly the same intensity-of-care requirements.
Participative management lifts lab productivity
Neither JCAH nor CAP had ever launched such a study.
Auditing transcription errors: a spot check for lab performance
Instead of formulating quality control practices according to the prescriptions of JCAH and CAP, we should review our programs and policies from a broader per-spective.
Japanese QC techniques merit our attention
There's another reason to consider pay for performance seriously --the 1985 JCAH requirement that hospitals periodically assess the competence of individuals who provide patient care services.
The big swing toward pay for performance
Keep in mind that JCAH recognizes all documented involvement in orientation for new technical procedures, by preparers and participants, as a source of continuing education.
A competency-based orientation program for new procedures
The JCAH requires that an institution individually certify any laboratories staffed by nursing and non-laboratory personnel, and it establishes quality assurance and record-keeping requirements as well (Figure I).
Meeting the challenge of bedside testing; technology will continue to push patient testing beyond the bounds of the laboratory
The JCAH recognizes the CAP program as equivalent for hospital accreditation, in effect giving the College "sub-deemed" status.
Lab director issue pivotal in CAP's deemed status bid

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