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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Directories, Data & Benchmarks > Joint Commission Benchmark Newsletter Joint Commission Benchmark 6 bi-monthly issues / 12 months ASIN: B00007GALE Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (Click Amazon here for best current subscription price)   This is JCAHO's performance measurement and accreditation newsletter for physicians, clinical and nurse leaders. Quality improvement and benchmarking have always been central to accreditation. You can count on Joint Commission Benchmark to help you with your performance measurement activities and help you prepare for your surveys. Benchmark is for performance measurement / improvement professionals in all accredited health care settings and helps you with standards-based performance measurement requirements, ORYX, and JCAHO performance measurement initiatives, such as staffing effectiveness. Joint Commission Benchmark is a practical newsletter for performance measurement / improvement professionals in all accredited organizations. It targets staff responsible for accreditation preparation and performance measurement, nurse leaders, and physician leaders.  Strategic priorities covered include staffing effectiveness, restraint and seclusion, pain management, medication use, and operative procedures and complications. Joint Commission Benchmark addresses performance measurement and accreditation, including ORYX and core measures, JCAHO National Patient Safety Goals, high-risk and problem-prone processes identified in the standards, and new initiatives focused on measurement.  All subscribers to Benchmark will also be given password access to JCAHO's complete archive of past issues. JCAHO 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. The editorial board, as of July 2004, of Benchmark consists of: Arnold M. Epstein, M.D., M.A., is Chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard University School of Public Health where he is the John H. Foster Professor. He is also Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Section on Health Services and Policy Research in the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Linda S. Hanold, M.H.S.A., is the Director of the Department of Performance Measurement and Health Informatics at the Joint Commission. Hanold also serves as vice-chair of the National Coordinating Council on Medication Error Reporting and Prevention. Ellen T. Kurtzman, R.N., M.P.H., is a Senior Program Director at the National Quality Forum. Kurtzman also serves as an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and as an examiner for the U.S. Senate Productivity and Maryland Quality awards. Jerod M. Loeb, Ph.D., is Executive Vice President, Division of Research at the Joint Commission. Loeb is also an Adjunct Professor of Physiology at Northwestern University Medical School and an Adjunct Associate for the Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at Stanford University. David. B. Nash, M.D., M.B.A., is the Chairman of the Department of Health Policy at Thomas Jefferson University. Nash is also on the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Partnerships in Quality Education program. Sheila H. Roman, M.D., M.P.H., is the Senior Medical Officer in the Quality Measurement and Health Assessment Group at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Roman maintains her clinical practice at Johns Hopkins University Hospital where she is also an Associate Professor of Medicine. Steven L. Solomon, M.D., is Associate Director for Healthcare Systems at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He received his M.D. from Tufts University and is Board Certified in internal medicine, preventive medicine, and infectious diseases. His clinical appointment is at the Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Sharon L. Sprenger, R.H.I.A., C.P.H.Q., M.P.A., is the Project Director, Group on Performance Measurement at the Joint Commission. Sprenger has worked with National Quality Forum staff on the Hospital Care National Performance Measure and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality staff on the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse. Daniel Stryer, M.D., is the Director for the Center for Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Stryer is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at the George Washington Medical School in Washington, D.C. Douglas L. Wood, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.C., is Vice-Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, and a practicing cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic. Wood was appointed by the Minnesota governor to the Minnesota Citizens Forum on Health Care Costs and is a charter member of the Performance Measurement Advisory Council of the Joint Commission. Count on Joint Commission Benchmark to help you with your performance measurement activities. Benchmark is for performance measurement/improvement professionals in all accredited health care settings. It will help you measure staffing effectiveness, meet ORYX requirements, and meet other standards-based performance measurement requirements. 6 bi-monthly issues / 12 months ASIN: B00007GALE Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (Click Amazon here for best current subscription price)   This is JCAHO's performance measurement and accreditation newsletter for physicians, clinical and nurse leaders. 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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