Newsletters and Journals

The Official Joint Commission Newsletter!
The Joint Commission Perspectives is your primary source for changes to standards, accreditation requirements, and The Joint Commission initiatives, including the new accreditation process.

Accreditation Compliance Strategies for Operational Improvement
The Source expands on Perspectives content by offering practical "how to" information and strategies for continuous standards compliance, including advice on how to comply with key The Joint Commission initiatives, standards, policies, and procedures.

Maintaining Safety, Reducing Risk
This monthly newsletter gives readers “how to” information on analyzing and preventing errors. While this newsletter emphasizes prevention (a proactive approach), it also addresses the real-world issues of reacting to adverse events.

The Joint Commission EC News Source!
Environment of Care News is your key to the best information on the environment of care. Twelve issues per year bring you accurate, up-to-the-minute EC standards news, dynamic examples, and tips for survey success for hospitals, ambulatory care, long term care, assisted living, home care, laboratory, and behavioral health care organizations.

Performance Measurement and Accreditation
Count on The Joint Commission Benchmark to help you with your performance measurement activities. Benchmark is for performance measurement/improvement professionals in all accredited health care settings and helps you with standards-based performance measurement requirements, ORYX, and The Joint Commission performance measurement initiatives, such as staffing effectiveness.

The only monthly peer-reviewed journal devoted to quality improvement!
The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, a peer-reviewed journal, serves as a forum for practical approaches to improving quality and safety in health care. Articles provide in-depth case studies that help readers to adopt or adapt methods, programs, and strategies to their own settings.