Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Long Term Care

2008 Edition
3-Ring Binder: 568 pages
ISBN 1599401290
9781599401294
JCAHO
January 2008
Price: $265.00
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The CAMLTC is an essential resource for continuous standards compliance and operational improvement. It provides the accreditation policies and procedures, standards, elements of performance, scoring, and decision rules in one three-ring binder.

Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Long Term Care (CAMLTC) contains all the information needed by a long term care organization.

CAMLTC includes revised standards, elements of performance, and scoring category designations since publication of the previous CAMLTC, as well as changes to accreditation policies and procedures, sentinel event policy, and more. Key content of the CAMLTC includes the following:

Updated standards, rationales, elements of performance, and scoring information
Information about the Joint Commission’s unannounced survey process
New chapter on the National Patient Safety Goals
Details regarding the Joint Commission Quality Reports
New chapter on the Medicare/Medicaid certification-based long term care accreditation standards
Revised accreditation policies and procedures to include changes from Shared Visions–New Pathways
New and revised decision rules
Updated information about the accreditation policies and procedures, including the Sentinel Events Policy
Revised chapter on JCAHO's new Quality Report (formerly Performance Report)
Revised and revamped “Accreditation Participation Requirements” chapter
All changes from the previous year's CAMLTC Subscription Update Service, including all standards, elements of performance, and scoring changes
Detailed crosswalks highlighting standards changes for the current year

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.

You may also be interested in these periodicals from JCAHO:

Joint Commission Benchmark - performance improvement
Joint Commission Journal on Quality & Patient Safety - quality improvement
Joint Commission Perspectives - official JCAHO updates, extremely important
Joint Commission Perspectives on Patient Safety - analyzing & preventing errors
Joint Commission: The Source - expands on Perspectives

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