Joint Commission International Accreditation: Getting Started, Second Edition

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“How do we get started?” It’s a question almost every health care organization asks when leaders first contact Joint Commission International (JCI) about accreditation. This newly updated edition of Joint Commission International Accreditation: Getting Started is intended to answer this question and provide tips, tools, and strategies to facilitate an organization’s journey toward continuous standards compliance.

Fundamentally, Joint Commission International Accreditation: Getting Started, Second Edition is a primer on the accreditation process that offers a wide range of information, answers the most basic questions, and discusses the purpose of quality and safety improvement efforts. The four distinct sections of the book are the following:

• Section 1 provides an overview of accreditation and is important information for all individuals working in a health care organization to know.
• Section 2 provides valuable information to executives about establishing a foundation for accreditation, allocating resources, and participating in the on-site survey.
• Section 3 offers information for the quality/accreditation specialist about the different activities involved in preparing for accreditation and how to structure performance improvement activities to achieve continuous standards compliance.
• Section 4 targets all health care staff—specifically, the frontline workers—seeking information on their role in the accreditation process and how to effectively navigate the on-site survey.

New to this edition:

• A comprehensive, updated review JCI’s accreditation process, including the fourth edition of the JCI Hospital standards, which were published in July 2010 and are effective starting 1 January 2011
• A stronger emphasis on tracer methodology, the key element in JCI’s accreditation process, including forms and tools that can help organizations use tracer methodology to assess their performance on an ongoing basis
• A greater focus on creating a culture of safety to support accreditation
• Further details about using data to improve performance
• New and updated case studies
• A complete set of Online Extras