Healthcare Quality: Analyzing Joint Commission, WHO, and CDC Roles

This report examines the roles of the Joint Commission, World Health Organization (WHO), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in maintaining and improving healthcare quality. It begins with an introduction emphasizing the significance of accreditation and certification in healthcare, highlighting the contributions of organizations like the Joint Commission in setting standards for patient care and safety. The analysis delves into the missions, purposes, duties, responsibilities, and quality monitoring methods of the three selected organizations. The Joint Commission focuses on establishing guidelines and providing accreditation to hospitals to ensure adherence to quality standards. The WHO aims for continuous improvement in healthcare delivery through the establishment of guidelines and procedures. The CDC addresses key health care issues by providing data and facts, encouraging collaboration and long-term planning. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of collaboration among these organizations to achieve comprehensive benefits in healthcare quality within the United States.

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Introduction
For health care institutions, accreditation and certification is an important process. The
organizations like Joint Commission contribute greatly to overall quality of health care in the
country. There are various other organizations who work to maintain the quality of health care
system in country. These organizations monitor and evaluate health care organizations, creating
and reinforcing standards for patient care and safety. The objective of this paper is to discuss the
three organizations that are responsible to maintain and monitor the quality of health care
delivery in health care organizations. The three organizations selected for this study are Joint
Commission, World Health Organization and CDC (Center for Disease Control & Prevention).
The paper would analyse the mission, purpose, duties and responsibilities and methods of
monitoring quality as used by these organizations.
Analysis
One of the key focus of organizations in health care industry is to provide quality care to
health care individuals. The eco-system of public health care is fairly large and diversified in our
country and an effective or efficient clientele network is the need of the hour (Koch,
Galaskiewicz, & Pierson, 2015). There are various stakeholders involved in our clientele
network from suppliers, vendors, government bodies, customers, etc. (Touati, Denis Roberge &
Brabant, 2015). The objective of Joint Commission is to ensure that the organizations that are
part of any network should adhere to the basic guidelines and policies as established by the Joint
Commission. It would be correct to say that Joint Commission is responsible to establish the
policies and guidelines for different hospitals in the country. The Joint Commission achieve its

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objectives by providing certificate and accreditation to hospitals. This method has helped a lot to
Joint Commission to ensure that overall levels of health care quality is maintained.
However, the one of the things would be to bring further efficiency in the system by
bridging the inefficient areas due to current organizational structure. For example, the meetings
between different department should be more often so that people can work with collaboration.
This is where World Health Organization comes useful. The basic purpose of WHO is to ensure
that there is a continuous improvement in the overall quality of health care delivery in the
country. The WHO maintains its objectives by establishing various guidelines. The organizations
establishes various processes and procedures that should be used widely by hospitals and other
health care institutions.
One of the drawbacks of our existing health care organizations in the country is lack of
collaboration among different stakeholders. This problem can be resolved if different
stakeholders are made accountable for their actions through a tough governance and agile
organization structure (Touati, Denis Roberge & Brabant, 2015). The CDC organizations tries to
solve this issue by providing various facts and data around the key health care issues in the
country. This organization believes that the leaders of the organization should meet more often to
discuss the areas of improvements and the steps that should be taken to bring further efficiency
in the existing clientele network. The objective should be on long term benefits and improvement
rather than the short term planning. CDC achieve its objectives by helping organizations with
key data. For example, if a Cancer institution needs data around Cancer records in the country,
then CDC would provide this data. Koch, Galaskiewicz, & Pierson (2015) highlighted that the
use of clientele network provides further information about the internal and external components
of the organizational environment. The clientele network connects the people of the organization

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with one another and the organization with other organizations in the eco-system (Ramsey, Lord,
Torrey, Marsch & Lardiere, 2016).
Conclusion
With the above discussion it can be said that all the three organizations play a key role to
improve the quality of health care delivery in United States of America. It is important that all
the organizations should work together so that complete benefits can be realized.

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