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 ...

ASCs need to reimagine patient flow when reopening their facilities, according to Lorrie Cappellino, RN, an ambulatory healthcare surveyor for The Joint Commission. 1. Include COVID-19-related ...

surveyor at The Joint Commission and current field director of the Psychiatric Hospital Accreditation Program, in an article published May 18 on The Joint Commission’s website. While reports ...

CMS was explicit that the shortened approval period was based on "concerns" related to Joint Commission surveyor performance and comparability of the Joint Commission's survey process to the agency's.

The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits more than 20,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. An independent, not-for-profit organization, The Joint Commission is the ...

Being a former Joint Commission surveyor herself, Barnden says the most successful surveys are often those that the team has "worked hard to ensure the process is consultative, collegial ...

As of January 1, 2018, if a Joint Commission surveyor sees one clinician fail to clean his or her hands one time, the organization will be cited as a deficiency resulting in a Requirement for ...

"We do need to advance communication and cultural competence," says Elizabeth Di Giacomo-Geffers, RN, MPH, CSHA, a healthcare consultant in Trabuco Canyon, CA, and former Joint Commission surveyor.

The Joint Commission is an independent, not-for-profit organization that accredits and certifies health care organizations and programs in the U.S. The surveyor observed unit activity ...

As a voluntary effort, VirtuAlly reached out to the Joint Commission and completed a pre-submit application. A surveyor from the Joint Commission evaluated VirtuAlly through a rigorous review ...