LTC Accreditation Manual.JCAHO JCAHO Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, see there has published the 2000-2001 Comprehensive 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. Manual far Long Term Care (CAMLTC), which includes all the information necessary to prepare for a JCAHO survey. The CAMLTC includes the standards and intent statements for 2000-2001 and provides implementation examples. It also includes new features, such as a detailed account of the joint Commission's Sentinel Event sentinel event Health policy A term used by the JCAHO for a 'headliner' event that may cause an unexpected or unanticipated outcome or death, and trigger an investigation of a hospital's policies policy; a chapter explaining the role of performance measurement in the accreditation process; revised decision rules; and a comparison of last year's scoring caps to the 2000-2001 scoring caps. Accreditation policies and procedures Policies and Procedures are a set of documents that describe an organization's policies for operation and the procedures necessary to fulfill the policies. They are often initiated because of some external requirement, such as environmental compliance or other governmental , aggregation rules and scoring questions are also addressed. |
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