The Joint Commission is the largest accrediting body for health care organizations in the United States. It accredits over 17,000 organizations and conducts unannounced surveys every 18-39 months to evaluate whether organizations meet quality and safety standards. While accreditation helps organizations improve quality and assists with reimbursement, the process also carries significant costs that are passed onto patients. Some critics argue that the Joint Commission is too lenient in its accreditation and more improvements are still needed to better ensure patient safety.
Hospital management and service improvement presentation - low and middle inc...Dr Edward Fitzgerald
Hospital management and service improvement presentation - low and middle income countries:
Discuss the basic principles of health system and hospital management.
Describe how management quality is measured and linked to system performance and outcome.
Outline specific aspects of hospital management relevant to LMIC health systems and hospitals.
Hospital management and service improvement presentation - low and middle inc...Dr Edward Fitzgerald
Hospital management and service improvement presentation - low and middle income countries:
Discuss the basic principles of health system and hospital management.
Describe how management quality is measured and linked to system performance and outcome.
Outline specific aspects of hospital management relevant to LMIC health systems and hospitals.
Quality assurance in health care system and the nurse's role in maintaining and supporting the quality assurance. quality control,quality maintenance and models of quality assurance are included.
Theera-Ampornpunt N. Quality and regulatory compliance in health care. Presented at: Faculty of ICT, Mahidol University; 2012 Mar 13; Bangkok, Thailand.
Supply of health and medical care
Definition and Law of Supply.
The health care production function.
Cost production in health care.
Factors determine price and quantity of health care.
Factors affecting Supply.
Investment on healthcare.
Health insurance and supply in healthcare.
Market Equilibrium.
References
Questions
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Quality assurance in health care system and the nurse's role in maintaining and supporting the quality assurance. quality control,quality maintenance and models of quality assurance are included.
Theera-Ampornpunt N. Quality and regulatory compliance in health care. Presented at: Faculty of ICT, Mahidol University; 2012 Mar 13; Bangkok, Thailand.
Supply of health and medical care
Definition and Law of Supply.
The health care production function.
Cost production in health care.
Factors determine price and quantity of health care.
Factors affecting Supply.
Investment on healthcare.
Health insurance and supply in healthcare.
Market Equilibrium.
References
Questions
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Presenting this set of slides with name - Financial Management In Healthcare Powerpoint Presentation Slides. This PPT deck displays fourty slides with in depth research. Our topic oriented Financial Management In Healthcare Powerpoint Presentation Slides presentation deck is a helpful tool to plan, prepare, document and analyse the topic with a clear approach. We provide a ready to use deck with all sorts of relevant topics subtopics templates, charts and graphs, overviews, analysis templates. Outline all the important aspects without any hassle. It showcases of all kind of editable templates infographs for an inclusive and comprehensive Financial Management In Healthcare Powerpoint Presentation Slides presentation. Professionals, managers, individual and team involved in any company organization from any field can use them as per requirement.
JCI is the world’s leader in health care accreditation and the author and evaluator of the most rigorous international standards in quality and patient safety.
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With its newly published 5th edition of JCI’s Accreditation Standards for Hospitals, JCI addresses the unique concerns of hospitals and academic medical centers, as well as the challenges of preserving quality care as patients move from inpatient to outpatient and other care providers.
Our unique tracer methodology provides the cornerstone of the JCI on-site survey, serving as a tool for surveyors and health care organizations to evaluate patients and systems in unprecedented depth. JCI separates itself from its competitors with innovations network accreditation, where similar organizations within a single system or larger entity can achieve accreditation efficiently through a single network application.
JCI is committed to keeping pace with the dynamics of global health care while remaining the standard bearer for its universally recognized Gold Seal of Approval®.
Rigorous process for developing international standards
Due to the expertise and scope of its international team, JCI is uniquely positioned to adapt leading global practices to the delivery of local care. Standards are developed and organized around important functions common to all health care organizations. In fact, the functional organization of standards is now the most widely used around the world and has been validated by scientific study, testing, and application.
Standards Advisory Panel
To maintain best practices, JCI turns to its Standards Advisory Panel, comprised of experienced physicians, nurses, administrators, and public-policy experts. The panel guides the development and revision process of the JCI accreditation standards. Panel members are from five major world regions: Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific Rim, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. The panel’s recommendations are refined based on an international field review of the standards and input from experts and others with unique content knowledge.
Estudios epidemiológicos en Seguridad del paciente (ENEAS II, IBEAS, APEAS). Jesús Aranaz Andrés. III Conferencia Internacional en Seguridad de pacientes: "Los pacientes por la seguridad del paciente" (Madrid, Ministerio de Sanidad y Consumo, 2007)
Navigating Medical Staff Officer and Physician Leadership Compensation MD Ranger, Inc.
Every hospital has a medical staff that functions as an indispensable partner in quality oversight, credentialing, accreditation, and operations. The medical staff elects officers to represent its physicians. Payment for medical staff officers varies by facility and position and can be a complex area to navigate. With healthcare organizations spending more and more on these types of roles, it is important to think strategically about this area of increasing concern.
In this webinar, we will talk about paying physicians in leadership positions reasonably and fairly. Join MD Ranger for this 30-minute webinar as we discuss:
-The (growing) diversity of physician leadership roles
-When to pay
-How much to pay
-Ways to structure payment
USP <800> aims to improve the health and safety of healthcare workers in hospitals, compounding pharmacies, and other areas where hazardous drugs are handled. This presentation overviews the history of healthcare worker protection against hazardous drugs such as chemotherapy and other antineoplastic compounds.
This set of slides highlights changes that the December 2014 USP <800> introduced to the USP <797>. This information offers insights into key compliance measures that prevent contamination of the work environment and thus protect the workers who handle the NIOSH-listed drugs than can cause health problems for laboratory and pharamacy workers.
One key to compliance is the right personal protection equipment (PPE). This slide presentation points to sources for additional information on specific products that satisfy USP <800> protocols.
Visually-guided urinary catheterizations can reduce trauma and urethral injuries which can decrease CAUTI rates. Very useful for hospitals seeking to reduce CAUTI rates and avoid government penalties under CMS' Hospital-Acquired Conditions Program. Improve patient care and safety!
The Road To Hospital Quality Accreditation: What’s In It For Us? Is It Even Worth The Expense?” Lecture to Master in Hospital Administration students of the University of the Philippines College of Public Health on August 16, 2013.
Due to the near-universal desire for safe and good quality healthcare, there is a growing interest in international healthcare accreditation. Providing healthcare, especially of an adequate standard, is a complex and challenging process. Healthcare is a vital and emotive issue—its importance pervades all aspects of societies, and it has medical, social,political, ethical, business, and financial ramifications.
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The New Focus on Quality and Outcomes
Introduction
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a groundbreaking analysis of the impact of medical errors on the health care delivery system and the patients it serves. The analysis, published as "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Healthcare System," concluded that medical errors resulted in up to 98,000 patient deaths in American hospitals every year. This report hit the national press and participants in the health care system and the political system with the force of a large bomb. Since that time, hospitals and other health care entities have refocused their attention on quality, errors, and patient safety in an unprecedented way, urged on by public outcry and by federal and state efforts to compel improvements in the health care system. Such entities as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (www.ihi.org) the National Quality Forum (www.qualityforum.org), and the Institute of Medicine (www.iom.edu) have all emerged as champions of quality and safety initiatives, offering training, resources, access to best practices, and data collection strategies to move the cause of quality and safety for patients forward.
History
The IOM report had a huge impact on the discussion of quality and safety in the health care field. Aspects of quality care have always been present in hospitals, typically focused around the quality assurance or quality management departments. They historically collected data on department indicators and monitored them as part of accreditation. However, departmental data was typically focused on operational performance in the departments in question, and not a great deal was collected on issues of medical errors and near-misses. The litigious legal climate caused most hospitals to fear collecting and sharing data that could potentially be used against them in a legal action. However, the IOM report caused a national demand to know what health care institutions were doing to protect their patients from injury caused by errors. A climate of increased transparency has begun to emerge, although it is still a very long way from the concept of full openness on standardized reporting of indicators. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) weighed in with publication of their never-events, as explored further below.
Finally there has been an increased push for public reporting of data on individual hospital performance on selected indicators. While some progress has been made, there is a large range of indicators that is not yet publically reported, and medical errors are not publically reported at all at this point, although those with great potential to cause harm must be reported to their relevant state licensing agency.
What Is Happening Now
Out of all this push has come an increasing focus on patient safety as a critical aspect of health care quality. Hospitals and other health care institutions are experimenting with the creation of cultures of quality, wherein ...
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Assignment 1 “Changes in Human Resource Management (HRM) and Employment Law" Please respond to the following: 1 and ½ half pages with references
· Based on the assigned chapters this week, identify three (3) key changes that have advanced HR and provide a justification to support your selection.
· From this week’s assigned reading, choose one (1) historical government HR regulation enacted and elaborate on how this new mandate affected all stakeholders involved. Recall stakeholders in any industry, and cover those directly involved and their communities.
Assignment 2 "Human Resources Activities and Relationships" Please respond to the following:
1 and ½ half pages with references
· Considering the services provided by a hospital HR department, how do most HR specialists deal with employee scarcity like nursing shortages when trying to hire the best professionals?
· What leadership and management skill sets are useful for retaining good employees and deferring employee turnover?
Assignment 3
Job Descriptions and Employee Training and Development" Please respond to the following:
2 pages with references
· Go to the Joint Commission’s Website located at http://www.jointcommission.org/standards_information/jcfaq.aspx. At “Standards FAQs,” select a field-related manual category from the drop-down list, type in “human resources” in the “Optional Keyword” box, and then click the “Go” button. Next, provide an example of how the Joint Commission has influenced a specific function of HR in a healthcare organization.
· Recommend a specific employee training method that you think would be most effective for a healthcare organization, and determine one advantage and one disadvantage of your chosen training method. Provide support for your rationale.
The New Focus on Quality and Outcomes
Introduction
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published a groundbreaking analysis of the impact of medical errors on the health care delivery system and the patients it serves. The analysis, published as "To Err is Human: Building a Safer Healthcare System," concluded that medical errors resulted in up to 98,000 patient deaths in American hospitals every year. This report hit the national press and participants in the health care system and the political system with the force of a large bomb. Since that time, hospitals and other health care entities have refocused their attention on quality, errors, and patient safety in an unprecedented way, urged on by public outcry and by federal and state efforts to compel improvements in the health care system. Such entities as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (www.ihi.org) the National Quality Forum (www.qualityforum.org), and the Institute of Medicine (www.iom.edu) have all emerged as champions of quality and safety initiatives, offering training, resources, access to best practices, and data collection strategies to move the cause of quality.
Healthcare Fraud: Illegal Kickback Schemes in Medicare & Medicaidlawsuitlegal
The amount of medicare and medicaid fraud is staggering.
This Lawsuit Legal data snapshot exposes how healthcare kickback schemes work.
Qui tam bounties for relators can reach outrageous amounts, and it's no wonder when you look at the scale of fraud in healthcare.
The schemes run the gambit from false claims, illegal referrals, false reimbursement claims, patient referrals and purchasing decision fraud. All in the name of defrauding these lucrative government programs.
In this case we look at what the False Claims Act has to say about kickbacks, and what the law states for people who get greedy and try to break the rules.
In addition, we'll briefly touch on what qui tam whistleblowers can do to put a stop to it, if they have knowledge of fraud.
It's always worth keeping in mind the bounties paid out to relators for money recovered in government actions.
Take a look at the illegal kickbacks common in the healthcare industry, who the most common offenders are, and what to look out for here.
#quitamclaims #whistleblowerlaws
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CHAPTER 18 Accreditation: A Global Regulatory Mechanism to Promote Quality and Safety
David Greenfield, Marjorie Pawsey, and Jeffrey Braithwaite
“What has eluded us thus far, however, is maintaining consistently high levels of safety and quality over time and across all health care services
and settings.”
—Chassin and Loeb (2011, p. 562)
The accreditation of health care organizations is a regulatory mechanism used in many countries around the world. Accreditation is an important
strategy by which improvements in quality and safety have been advocated and institutionalized. The purpose of this chapter is to provide an
overview of accreditation of health organizations. The chapter has five sections. The first section considers the purpose of accreditation, noting that
it has become a global phenomenon found in many industries and sectors of health care. The second section discusses the extent of the
accreditation of health organizations, the maturing of accreditation 513514program philosophy from quality assurance to quality improvement, and
the selfgoverning system that has been developed. The third section explores the commonalities and differences in accreditation programs, where
increasingly a common model of accreditation is enacted but with variation in standards. The evidence base for accreditation is examined in the
fourth section. Finally, the fifth section considers the issues and challenges for accreditation stakeholders.
AN OVERVIEW OF ACCREDITATION
What Is Accreditation?
Accreditation is the formal declaration by a designated authority that an organization, service, or individual has demonstrated competency,
authority, or credibility to meet a predetermined set of standards. Accreditation is a mechanism that seeks to reassure external stakeholders that
quality and safety standards are demonstrated. A secondary and more recent goal in some applications, notably health care, is to provide a basis for
quality improvement initiatives (Davis et al., 2009; Gibberd et al., 2004; Williams et al., 2005). The shift to accreditation, notably from the 1970s
onward, is representative of a shift in philosophy by governments whereby they have sought to provide a framework for the governance of
services rather than to provide those services themselves. Through accreditation and other regulation strategies, governments have sought
abatement or control of risks to society by indirect means (Sparrow, 2000).
Accreditation has become a ubiquitous part of our modern world. For example, it can apply to any of the following:
• Industries, including organic food (Gabriel, 2007), tourism (Austral.
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US Healthcare Delivery Systems
Quality Outcome Measures
Donna Wilson, RN MPH MSJ CPHQ
Director, Quality Improvement/Patient Safety
Mount Sinai Beth Israel
History Pre- 1913
The godmother of quality was Florence Nightingale. She was a wealthy woman who went to work in the nurse corp during the Crimean war. She studied illness – the dysentery that the soldiers were getting.
She was the first one credited with thinking about washing hands, how close the beds were to one another and sharing needles.
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EMERGENCE OF Continue
Quality Improvement in Health Care
1913 - American College of Surgeons (ACS)- started to measure what we are doing and what difference it makes.
1918 - Hospital Standardization Program
1951 - Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Hospitals Organizations (JCAHO)-certifies 99% of hospitals
1963 – Corporate Liability introduced to Hospitals 1st lawsuit
1986 - Corporatization of medicine (HMO’s started, PPO’s)
1988 - Harvard Health Care Demo Project
Need for objective information on physician performance
Data on cost/ outcomes of medical care used by CMS
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1913
First step toward improving quality care in American hospital. Developed minimal essential standards of care for hospital. Became the Hospital’s Standardization Program (HSP).
1951
HSP became JCAH - assumed responsibility for accreditation
Shift focus from structure to process
Increasing demand for availability of data on quality outcomes, and cost
1963
Hospital can be held accountable for failing to establish system of safe practices as defined by the industry.
EMERGENCE OF CQI IN HEALTH CARE
1990 - Introduction of TQM/CQI principles to hospital management by industry people
1999:Institute of Medicine (IOM) Report said that over 100,000 patients died from medical errors
Started Patient Safety
Transparency in Healthcare
Creation of Institute for Healthcare Quality (IHI)
2000 - CMS Core Measures
2006 – Pay for Performance
2009 – Present on Admission & Readmissions
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Organization demanded data on cost, use patterns and practice patterns because such information was crucial in managing care in these systems. Essential to evaluating costs and quality of care.
TQM
Growing focus on using scientific methods. TQM was introduced to hospitals to change the way certain hospitals approached quality.
Physician Performance
For appointment and reappointment process
Cost and Out come
Medicare Prospective Payment System - Center for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)
Continuous Quality Improvement
This term started in 1990s and started to look at quality on a continuum
We would say “ this is the problem” then we would collect data to see where we were weak and then come up with a solution
Then we would measure it ( the outcome) to see if what I put in place actually helped.
If it worked we move onto a different problem. If not, we tried a new solution
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CQI came from Japan’s car industry
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The Joint Commission is a Chicago-based organization which accredits 15,000 hospitals in the United States. The Joint Commission International (JCI) is its subsidiary which accredits hospitals outside the U.S. As the medical travel trend grows, JCI accreditation is becoming an important benchmark for quality standards.
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Introduction
The system of healthcare in most of the countries is national based healthcare system whereby the government offers health care services to the public using governmental agencies. In Saudi Arabia for example, there are some growing private healthcare facilities. The government of many nations remains the full controller of the healthcare sectors both private and public. The private hospitals are both non-profit and profit for example in Saudi Arabia, most of these private hospital attracts several expats. Both the standards of both private and government hospitals are of more similarity. Some of the private healthcare facilities are of the world class but with poor health service delivery (Penm,2015).
Comparing and Contrasting the Legal Structure and Governance of the Profit and Non-profit international entities
Differences
The selected international entities include the Joint Commission International (non-profit), International Hospital Federation (non-profit) and the Kaiser Permanente (non-profit and profit). The legal structure of the Joint Commission International (JCI) follows the certification and accreditation of the hospital. The hospital must be evaluated first to see if the hospital complies with the standards and meets the activities needed by this entity. There are accreditation programs that any hospital must go through. This is then followed by the certification which can either be based on associated health care organization (Joint Commission, 2016). On the other hand, the International Hospital Federation requires a formal and documented request addressed to the Chief Executive Officer for one to be a member. The legal structure of Kaiser Permanente is consisting of two or three independent legal entities in each region of California (Finz, 2012). The applying employee must have been hired as a new Kaiser Permanente for an award-eligible post.
The governance of the International Hospital Federation is consisting of three organs i.e. the general assembly, governing council, and the executive committee. There are also the designated positions which consist of the president, chairman designate, immediate past president, treasurer, and the chief executive officer (International Hospital Federation, 2015). On the other hand, Kaiser Permanente is consisting of entities with each entity having its management and governance structure. There are regional entities and twelve Permanente Medical groups which were created by the Permanente Federation. The role of the Permanente is to standardized patient care as well as the performance (Finz, 2012). The governing of JCI is under the leadership of the President and the chief executive officer (Matt, 2011).
Advantages of the Entities
Join Commission International provides a wide variety of health care programs l ...
The authors behind a new paper are encouraging good medical billing practices, arguing that it’s a mark of quality health care. The information medical bills contain and what tactics companies use to collect payment can vary, but the authors outline five metrics by which to judge medical bills.
Among them: Bills of high quality would provide patients with an itemized and understandable list of services; would allow patients to easily contact a representative to clarify or contest their bill; and wouldn’t involve any “surprise” charges
How to Improve Hospital Accreditation - Linta Meyla PutriLinta Meyla Putri
Hospital as a health care institution must provide quality services to the community. Quality of service is a standard that will be made to increase the hospital accreditation. In addition to the accredited national standards, some hospitals in Indonesia, especially government hospitals, will also be accredited to use international standards. Actually in Indonesia has a lot of hospitals which are internationally accredited, but most private hospitals. This condition is to give the impression that government hospitals are less credible and less able to provide the best service both communities. To achieve this, the government in collaboration with international accreditation agency that is Joint Commission International (JCI), USA.
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Icd-10 costs: Are they overblown?
A new analysis suggests the costs of the transition are not as high as previously thought [49]
by S cott Balti c Contributing editor
Is tort reform capable of achieving gains for physicians
when it comes to medical liability? The jury is out
The future of malpractice reform
Beyond specifc recommendations, proposals
and legislation for fxing the nation’s medical
liability issues, there seems to be a growing
sense—and mounting evidence— that “tort
reform,” broadly construed, may not be
efective at accomplishing what it’s supposed
to. So where does that leave reformers and
physicians?
MAlprActIce reforMers have pur-
sued many strategies in an attempt to rein
in the nation’s malpractice costs and craft
a system that benefts physicians, patients
and the healthcare system as a whole. A
growing body of evidence suggests that
many “tort reform” eforts simply don’t ac-
complish what they’re intended to.
In fact, earlier this year the American
College of Physicians (ACP) released a de-
tailed position paper on malpractice reform
that revisits many old ideas, according to
some experts who follow reform eforts. “It’s
a pretty standard list of tort reform propos-
als,” says David Orentlicher, J.D., codirector
of the Hall Center for Law and Health at the
Indiana University McKinney School of Law.
Another malpractice expert goes further.
“Tere’s nothing new here. Some of this stuf
is literally decades old,” says Keith Hebeisen,
J.D., former chairman of the American Bar
Association’s Standing Committee on Medi-
cal Professional Liability.
Even the “newer” reforms on the ACP’s
list typically are at least 10 years old, though
HIGHLIGHTS
01 Earlier this year
the American College of
Physicians released a
detailed position paper on
malpractice reform that
revisits many old ideas,
according to some experts
who follow reform efforts.
02 While malpractice
reform has stalled at the
federal level, many states are
exploring reform options.
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Malpractice reform
some, such as safe harbors, have not been
tried much in the United States, says Allen
Kachalia, J.D., associate professor at the
Harvard School of Public Health.
PaTienT safeTy
In its frst recommendation, the ACP paper
nods to quality control, then switches to
“We should make it harder to sue doctors,”
followed by suggestions how, says Bernard
S. Black, J.D., of Northwestern University’s
School of Law and Kellogg Sc.
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11. Some stories which raise the question about the Joint Commission Accreditation: Gilbert M. Gaul Washington Post writer (July 25, 2005) wrote that “Norwalk Hospital in Connecticut won accreditation from the joint commission in May 2004. Less than a month later, state regulators reported numerous violations at the hospital. One patient received 10 times the prescribed dosage of a painkiller, according to state records. Another had his left testicle mistakenly removed. Still another, experiencing suicidal thoughts, was given a taxi token and told to find a treatment center. He hanged himself hours later, according to a November 2004 consent agreement between the hospital and state. Norwalk officials agreed to pay the state a $50,000 fine without admitting wrongdoing”.
12. Conclusion: the Joint Commission is doing a very good job specially in making a national and international health care standard, and it plays an important role in improving the quality of the health care. However, as everything in the world, it needs to reevaluate the whole system. In my opinion, the Joint Commission must take some of the responsibility in pre-decided quality event that occur in the accredited organization such as paying part of the fine required due to this event. Furthermore, it should take more serious decision against the sentinel events. And the federal government should take an action toward the Joint Commission in case of serious quality problem in any accredited organization.
13. References: Joint commission , March 15, 2010. Facts about the Joint Commission . Retrieved from http://www.jointcommission.org/facts_about_the_joint_commission/ Allan Tobias , MD JD. (n.d). Need JCAHO , Retrieved from http://www.medicalaw.net/new_page_11.htm Kate Jackson , May 31, 2004, Beyond JCAHO: There’s More Than One Path to Accreditation, For the Record, Retrieved from http://www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/ftr_053104p30.shtml Joint Commission International , (n.d), Costs of Accreditation. Retrieved from http://www.jointcommissioninternational.org/Cost-of-Accreditation/ Michael Wolfe , September 3, 2010, Benefits & Disadvantages of the Joint Commission, eHow, Retrieved from http://www.ehow.com/list_6900079_benefits-disadvantages-joint-commission.html Liz Kowalczyk , March 17, 2007 , Surprise check faults MGH quality of care, Boston Globe, Retrieved from http://www.allbusiness.com/health-care/health-care-facilities-nursing/11897140-1.html Quality Check (2010) Facts about Quality Check and Quality Reports, Retrieved from www.qualitycheck.org/help_qc_facts.aspx Health care quality news (2009) The Joint Commission updates sentinel event statistics, Retrieved from http://www.hcqualitynews.com/home/2009/10/25/the-joint-commission-updates-sentinel-event-statistics.html The Washington Post (2005) Accreditors Blamed for Overlooking Problems, Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/24/AR2005072401023.html Top of Form