The health care industry's oldest, largest accreditation and certification organization is forming new partnerships and ...

Mary Pat Hall, RN, has been with The Joint Commission as an Ambulatory Care Accreditation program surveyor since May 2012. She previously was the Pontiac-based Doctors’ Hospital of Michigan’s director ...

Get ready for a change: The Joint Commission has announced it will now have ambulatory survey teams consisting of two surveyors, rather than one. The second surveyor will be a life safety code ...

The Joint Commission will be able to better quantify the voluntary certification’s burden for interested hospitals after the survey goes live on Jan. 1, Perlin said.

The Joint Commission is eliminating an additional 200 standards for ambulatory and behavioral care centers, critical-access hospitals, laboratories and nursing homes as part of an ongoing review ...

I also spoke with Dr. Perlin, head of the Joint Commission, about that journey to a "coherent" AI pathway. Read on to the Pulse Check section to see what he said. Essential Reading.

National Quality Forum is joining the Joint Commission in a merger deal that the groups say will allow both to refine quality and outcome measures they develop for the industry. | The combination ...

Here are 20 moves from The Joint Commission Becker’s has covered since January, starting with the most recent: 1. The Joint Commission on Nov. 30 launched a consumer education campaign to ...

They'll also create a "new certification program rooted in The Joint Commission's platform for evidence-based standards, and CHAI's consensus-based best practices for health AI," according to the ...

The Joint Commission is partnering with the Coalition for Health AI to develop guidance for deploying artificial intelligence tools in healthcare. iStock via Getty Images Listen to the article 4 min ...

Put nurses in charge of patient safety, says Joint Commission surveyor National Nurses Week or Month has to be more than a luncheon, a poster contest or even distributing hospital swag.

The Joint Commission this week announced its new Telehealth Accreditation Program for eligible hospitals, ambulatory and behavioral healthcare organizations. The program, with an effective date of ...