Your official news source on The Joint Commission accreditation process.
The Joint Commission Perspectives gives you the what, when, and how to help your organization stay up-to-date on The Joint Commission initiatives and maintain continuous standards compliance.
Perspectives is your primary source of timely, readable, and useful information about The Joint Commission standards changes, survey process, patient safety, ORYX, and more. It shares expert advice straight from The Joint Commission surveyors and staff on challenging standards, tough survey issues, and more. In addition to coverage of standards and survey process changes, exciting regular features provide expert direction and commentary.
Here’s some of what you’ll gain from Perspectives:
- In Sight allows you to monitor changes to standards, survey processes, and key initiatives before they are approved and gives you time to gear up.
- The Fact on Fiction identifies inacurrate and misleading information published about The Joint Commission inititatives by organizations not affiliated with The Joint Commission and provides the correct information straight from The Joint Commission experts.
- Sentinel Event Alert reviews each issue of Sentinel Event Alert and provides you with the root causes, risk-reduction strategies, and recommendations to improve care that you need to review for application in your organization.
Executive Editor
Jaclyn Graham
Senior Project Manager
Christine Wyllie, M.A.
Associate Director, Publications
Diane Bell
Executive Director, Publications
Catherine Chopp Hinckley, Ph.D.
Vice President, Learning
Charles Macfarlane, F.A.C.H.E.
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Joint Commission Perspectives (ISSN 0277-8327) is published monthly (12 issues per year) by Joint Commission Resources, One Renaissance Boulevard, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181. Send address corrections to Joint Commission Perspectives, Superior Fulfillment, 131 W 1st Street, Duluth, MN 55802-2065, 800/746-6578.
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The mission of The Joint Commission is to continuously improve the safety and quality of care provided to the public through the provision of health care accreditation and related services that support performance improvement in health care organizations.