Environment of Care: Essentials for Health Care

Spiral-bound Book: 200 pages + bonus CD-ROM
11" x 9"
1599402858
978-1599402857
Joint Commission Resources
Co-published by JCR and The American Academy of Pediatrics
January 2009
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Recommended by The Joint Commission, this book and CD-ROM resource kit is the insider's guide to understanding the on-site environment of care survey portion of the unannounced survey accreditation process.

This resource gives you the most up-to-date Environment of Care, Emergency Management, and Life Safety standards and survey information for the accreditation process -- all in one convenient spiral-bound volume. This popular product now features the new EC, EM, and LS chapters, developed through the Joint Commission's Standards Improvement Initiative (SII).

It includes with it an Environment of Care Checklist CD-ROM -- and an electronic version of the popular EC, EM, and LS Standards Matrix.

Environment of Care Essentials for Health Care, Ninth Edition features information on how to understand the new EC, EM, and LS chapters and numbering and why this was developed. It explains how EC, EM, and LS will be surveyed and provides details on the new scoring--particularly for life safety. One special added feature is an Appendix of the EC, EM, and LS "history tracking charts" showing the previous standards tracked to the newest corresponding standards, and vice versa.

This highly useable book presents the EC, EM, and LS standards that ambulatory care, behavioral health care, critical access hospital, hospital, laboratory, long term care, Medicare/Medicaid Certification-based long term care, office-based surgery practices, and home care organizations have in common. It's an invaluable tool for managers in charge of multiple facilities.

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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