Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals, CAMH: The Official Handbook

2009 Edition: Full Size Looseleaf Edition
Ring-bound: 500+ pages, 12.5" x 11.5"
ISBN 1599402130
978-1599402130
JCAHO / Joint Commission Resources
January 2009
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2009 Portable Edition: Compact Size
ISBN 1599402491
978-1599402499
JCAHO / Joint Commission Resources
January 2009
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We recommend the Full-Size Version for all Hospitals - Published by the Joint Commission, the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals: The Official Handbook (CAMH) is entirely reformatted to reflect the Joint Commission's current accreditation process.

This manual features everything a hospital needs for continuous standards compliance and operational improvement. Included are standards, rationales, elements of performance, and a self-assessment grid. This refreshed core integrates standards, rationales, elements of performance, scoring, decision rules, National Patient Safety Goals, and policies and procedures for the hospital accreditation program through the current year. This new manual reflects changes as a result of The Joint Commission's Standards Improvement Initiative (SII) and features the following:

New and revised standards chapters - standards, elements of performance, and scoring changes - all the changes from the previous year
Reorganized and reformatted manual
Crosswalk of standards comparing the prior standards to the newest standards
Revised scoring process
More in-depth index CAMH Subscription Update Service
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 of CAMH to the reformatted standards for this current edition. You may view an excerpt of an earlier year's version of this manual here: sample pages.

About the Portable Version: This portable version of the refreshed core integrates standards, rationales, elements of performance, scoring, decision rules, National Patient Safety Goals, and policies and procedures for the hospital accreditation program.

The Joint Commission'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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