In 2000, various JCAHO expert panels encouraged the process of revising and consolidating JCAHO standards related to medication use. In 2002, JCAHO announced changes to its accreditation process for ...

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will continue data-mining operations for quality-improvement programs and may move forward with a controversial plan to require ...

What a difference a year can make. Just over a year ago, the American Hospital Association was firing off strongly worded statements criticizing the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare ...

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations on Wednesday voted to begin the process of revoking Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center's accreditation after finding the ...

Standard MM.3.10 Only medications needed to treat the patient's condition are ordered. This new standard requires a documented diagnosis, condition, or indication for use for each medication ordered.

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations on Tuesday revoked its accreditation of Martin Luther King Jr./Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles, denying a second appeal by the Los ...

UC Davis Medical Center received its best-ever review by surveyors from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations after their site visit last week. "Every member of our team -- ...

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. – The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has issued a Sentinel Event Alert that urges health care organizations to pay special attention to ...

Funded by a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, JCAHO has announced plans to begin testing a comprehensive list of nursing-related performance measures. The idea behind the testing is to ...

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has released a list of draft patient safety goals and requirements that may be included in the group's 2008 standards.

The medical association JCAHO was identified incorrectly as the Joint Council of American Hospital Organizations in a story about Paris in the Sunday Travel section. The acronym actually stands for ...