Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Critical Access Hospital (CAMCAH): The Official Handbook

Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Critical Access Hospital (CAMCAH): The Official Handbook
Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

2009 Ringbound Edition + bonus CD-ROM
Ring-bound: 400 pages, 12.5" x 11.8"
ISBN 1599402408
978-1599402406
JCAHO / Joint Commission Resources
January 2009
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Published by JCAHO, this is your guide to the Joint Commission's current accreditation process.

This manual features everything a critical access hospital needs for continuous standards compliance and operational improvement. Included are standards, rationales, elements of performance, and a self-assessment grid. Key features include the following:

All the changes from the previous year
Standards, elements of performance, and scoring changes
A chapter featuring the newest National Patient Safety Goals
Details regarding the Joint Commission Quality Report
Updated information about the Joint Commission’s accreditation process
Updated information about accreditation policies and procedures, including the Sentinel Events Policy
Details regarding Quality Reports

The newly streamlined, refreshed core manual is your hospital's key resource, featuring everything your organization needs for ongoing standards compliance. Included are details on the

new streamlined format for standards, rationales, elements of performance, scoring and self-assessment grid;
Periodic Performance Review;
revised survey agenda;
Priority Focus Process;
tracer methodology;
revised decision process;
revised accreditation policies and procedures; and
revised performance measurement requirements.

Also included are detailed crosswalks highlighting standards changes from previous editions to the reformatted standards for this current edition. The CAMCAH has been reorganized and redesigned due to The Joint Commission's Standards Improvement Initiative. It includes all the newly revised standards and elements of performance, explanations of the new scoring process, information on the new standards numbering system, and the National Patient Safety Goals and accreditation requirements for critical access hospitals. Key features include the following:

Updated accreditation policies and procedures
New scoring information
New icons showing documentation requirements
Color-coded tabs to help you quickly locate requirements
Information explaining the new standards numbering system
Included on CD-ROM: Comparison tables between the previous year and reorganized new year standards.

JCAHO's mission is to continuously improve the safety and quality of care provided to the public through the provision of health care accreditation and related services that support performance improvement in health care organizations. The Joint Commission is an independent, not-for-profit organization, established more than 50 years ago. Joint Commission is governed by a board that includes physicians, nurses, and consumers. Joint Commission sets the standards by which health care quality is measured in America and around the world. The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits more than 15,000 health care organizations and programs in the US. An independent, not-for-profit organization, the Joint Commission is the nation's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. Since 1951, the Joint Commission has maintained state-of-the-art standards that focus on improving the quality and safety of care provided by health care organizations. The Joint Commission's comprehensive accreditation process evaluates an organization's compliance with these standards and other accreditation requirements.

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