Analysis of the Joint Commission's Role in Healthcare Accreditation

The provided report offers a detailed analysis of the Joint Commission, a prominent organization in healthcare accreditation. It begins with an overview of the Joint Commission's mission, established in 1951, to enhance medical care quality by collaborating with various stakeholders. The report outlines the commission's role in accrediting over 21,000 healthcare programs and organizations, including hospitals, nursing homes, and medical offices, emphasizing its non-profit status and its position as a leading accreditation body. It describes the structure of the commission, including its affiliated organizations such as the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare and Joint Commission Resources. The report highlights the commission's accreditation process, its impact on hospitals and healthcare providers, and the various certification options available. The report also discusses the fees associated with accreditation and the support services offered. Overall, the report provides a comprehensive understanding of the Joint Commission's role in shaping healthcare standards and improving patient care.

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The Joint commission was founded in 1951, which continuously seeks to enhance the medical
care provided to the people, by collaborating with various stakeholders, so by analyzing business
providing medical maintenance and influencing them to grow and provide the most effective and
efficient care of high potential.
This Joint commission educated and certified more than 21,000 programs and organizations of
medical care in USA, like hospital businesses offering ambulatory services and operations which
are office based, nursing care services, lab centers, medical care provided at homes. The
commission is a nonprofit organization, which is unbiased and is one of the largest and country’s
oldest accrediting and standard setting organization in field of medical care.
The commission comprises of two affiliated associations which are nonprofit organizations: The
joint commission Center for transforming Healthcare which resolves the most serious issues of
medical care related to wellbeing and one’s safety. The Joint Commission Resources specializes
in offering services such as consulting, books and education. Joint Commission International is a
subpart of JCR which has educated and accredited businesses dealing in international health.
The main aim is to improve and facilitate the health care services to the people by working
mutually with various stakeholders and motivating other health care organizations to grow in the
field of providing effective care of top standard. The vision is to provide with the best quality,
safest and most valued health care service across all settings.
Out of all the hospitals in the nation, the Joint Commission itself has licensed around 77% of the
hospitals and in USA around 88% of the hospitals are licensed under JC. The accreditation of
Joint Commission can be taken by several kind of organizations in healthcare sector which
includes hospitals, nursing homes, offices of doctors, surgery centers, treatment facilities related
to healthcare and home care service providers.
For more than 60 years, the commission has accredited hospitals and at present it has accredited
around 4,168 general, rehabilitation centers, acute long term, children’s, psychiatric and specialty
hospitals and also with a different accreditation program, around 378 hospitals specializing in
critical access were accredited.

The Commission awards the accredited hospitals and hospitals specializing in critical access who
has achieved or maintained its excellent performance in accountability measure during the year
2010 and titled as the top performers on key quality measures.
JC also helps in offering several voluntary, add-on options of certification, including disease-
specific care, consisting of various stroke methods of maintenance supplies, such as
comprehensive stroke center, various orthopedic offers, such as higher level total hip and total
knee replacement along with dentistry rehab certificate, services related to medical staffing,
primary care, integral care medical home to hospitals along with critical access hospitals.
Annual prices for hospitals depends on the type of hospital and optional values based on the
volume and the kind of services the hospital offers. Every year, in January, the yearly fee
statement is given to the clients; and for fresh clients, the yearly statement of fee is given after
the submission of certification application. Within a week time, the on-site poll fee is charged
from questionnaire’s conclusion.
The health systems are given with the choice to receive a company orientation and also the
company summation. This can be handled by a club leader with the help of a crew member
through video conference or by summation report. The pricing program of joint commission is
available on the extranet link of Joint commission.