The Joint Commission is undergoing sweeping overhaul of its standards, eliminating 168 standards (14 percent) and revising another 14 standards. The organization is looking to make its accreditation ...

The Joint Commission has identified the top five Joint Commission requirements that were most frequently identified as “not compliant” for the first half of 2011 for accredited organizations and ...

The Joint Commission released a statement on pain management, focusing on the opioid epidemic in the United States. Some have blamed The Joint Commission's pain standards for the over-prescription ...

OAKBROOK TERRACE - The Joint Commission Wednesday said it is eliminating 168 standards and revising 14 others across its accreditation programs to streamline requirements and make them as efficient ...

All In Solutions California continues to demonstrate its commitment to the highest standards of clinical care through its ...

The Joint Commission will review and analyze each of its quality standards with an eye toward revising or eliminating measures to better focus on patient safety and support overwhelmed healthcare ...

The Joint Commission is eliminating 200 additional standards from its accreditation programs for ambulatory and behavioral health centers, critical access hospitals, laboratories and nursing homes, ...

The Joint Commission is seeking comments on its proposed new and revised standards for workplace violence prevention in hospitals and critical access hospital accreditation programs. “The new and ...

The Joint Commission has released a series of interim requirements to the staffing effectiveness standards, which are set to go into effect July 1, 2010. The standards, approved by the Standards and ...

Maternity hospitals across the country would be required to do more to prevent deadly deliveries under new standards proposed this week by the nation’s largest hospital accreditation group. If adopted ...