Blogs

Inspired by The Joint Commission’s Speak Up™ campaigns, as well as an enterprise-wide effort to boost patient and family engagement, Nemours has designed and implemented our own Speak Up program.

Dr. Pugh was the inaugural fellow for The Joint Commission’s President’s Fellowship for Healthcare Quality and Safety, a prestigious program for a highly qualified healthcare professional to collaborate with The Joint Commission to advance healthcare outcomes globally.

Newman Memorial Hospital participated in The Joint Commission’s Rural Health Clinic (RHC) Accreditation Pilot Program to help improve patient outcomes.

A new report from the American Hospital Association (AHA), utilizing data analyzed by Vizient, brings much-needed good news to the healthcare industry. Hospital performance on key patient safety and quality measures has improved beyond pre-pandemic levels, suggesting that we are back on track and then some.

The Joint Commission's Responsible Use of Health Data™ (RUHD) Certification sets up guard rails and provides guidance for healthcare organizations to safely use properly de-identified patient data for purposes beyond clinical care, known as secondary use.

After recognizing a significant opportunity to improve the care provided to one of our nation’s most vulnerable populations, patient care teams at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) developed a procedure called the Surgical Pause. This brief pause allows physicians and surgeons to take a step back and consider whether a surgery is really safe for a frail patient, as well as evaluate strengthening measures to prepare a patient for surgery.

A study in the January 2024 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (JQPS) describes a foundational step healthcare organizations need to take to facilitate the provision of equitable care: routine and systematic documentation of patients’ disability status in the electronic health record (EHR).

A research team examined the effectiveness of suicidal ideation screening in primary care. The findings are reported in the December 2023 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety.

Joint Commission Resources (JCR) created the Board Education Resource Center: a collection of complimentary resources to give boards and executive teams the vital support and education they need to best serve their organizations and communities.

Our article in the September 2023 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, “Sociotechnical Work System Approach to Occupational Fatigue,” outlines a conceptual framework to describe, explore, anticipate and address healthcare professional occupational fatigue.