Jci Accreditation Standards for Hospitals

Description

Joint Commission International (JCI) is proud to present this fifth edition of its international standards for hospitals. Our customers have told us clearly and repeatedly they want standards that are challenging, achievable, and focused on the safety and quality of patient care. We have listened and we believe these standards exceed those expectations.

In this edition, we are publishing fewer standards and requirements than we have since our second set of standards were published in 2002. We have combined similar requirements, eliminated others that we did not consider essential to better patient outcomes, and reorganized the content across many chapters to ensure a better, more logical flow of requirements. We have provided more examples of proper compliance within the
standards' intents to ensure that our requirements are clear. We have also included two chapters of standards for Academic Medical Center Hospitals, consolidating all of our requirements for our hospital customers in one place.

We are thankful for the input and feedback we received from our esteemed Standards Advisory Panel, which reviewed, informed, and otherwise guided us through the development of these standards. We are grateful to our customers, who responded in record numbers to our field review, confirming that we were headed in the right direction with our proposed standards and making us think longer and more fully about other requirements, all of which eventually pushed us to do our jobs better and in a more patient-centric way.

We hope you appreciate the effort that we put into this edition of standards. As always, let us know what you think—your opinion is as much on these pages as ours is.

Paula Wilson
President and CEO
Joint Commission International and Joint Commission Resources

Contents

Foreword
Standards Advisory Panel
Introduction
General Eligibility Requirements

Section I: Accreditation Participation Requirements
Accreditation Participation Requirements (APR)

Section II: Patient-Centered Standards
International Patient Safety Goals (IPSG)
Access to Care and Continuity of Care (ACC)
Patient and Family Rights (PFR)
Assessment of Patients (AOP)
Care of Patients (COP)
Anesthesia and Surgical Care (ASC)
Medication Management and Use (MMU)
Patient and Family Education (PFE)

Section III: Health Care Organization Management Standards
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QPS)
Prevention and Control of Infections (PCI)
Governance, Leadership, and Direction (GLD)
Facility Management and Safety (FMS)
Staff Qualifications and Education (SQE)
Management of Information (MOI)

Section IV: Academic Medical Center Hospital Standards
Medical Professional Education (MPE)
Human Subjects Research Programs (HRP)
Summary of Key Accreditation Policies
Glossary
Index