Hospitals beware. (Health Care).The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, n.pr the United States body that accredits healthcare organizations. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO/TJC), n. , the leading hospital accreditation Hospital accreditation has been defined as “A self-assessment and external peer assessment process used by health care organisations to accurately assess their level of performance in relation to established standards and to implement ways to continuously agency, plans to conduct its regular inspection of hospitals on an unannounced basis in 2006. Currently, hospitals are notified in advance when their accreditation accreditation, n a process of formal recognition of a school or institution attesting to the required ability and performance in an area of education, training, or practice. inspection will occur, but that process has drawn criticism as being too weak, especially following a 1999 report from the Institute of Medicine that up to 98,000 people may die each year from medical mistakes. Officials with the JCAHO JCAHO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, see there say they hope the new accreditation process, which will be tested in some hospitals starting next year, will result in better compliance with its standards. |
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