Behavioral Health Care Update: Leading the Way to Quality and Safety: Maximizing Your Accreditation Efforts for Psychiatric Hospital Behavioral Health Care

Because accreditation principles and standards form such an important aspect of each accredited organization's mission, all staff must be familiar with Joint Commission initiatives.  Each year, Joint Commission Resources develops an adjunct seminar that spotlights different aspects of the accreditation requirements to inform and update staff on current issues that in turn prepares them to improve and sustain their efforts toward safe, quality client care.

The plenary session focus on changes to the scoring system and the new electronic manual, E-dition.  Setting specific sessions for freestanding behavioral health care settings and psychiatric hospitals will feature presentations and discussions on updates to accreditation requirements that go into effect January 2009.

Brochure

Objectives:

• Explain the 2009 changes in the scoring methodology and post-survey activities
• Identify the functionality of the new electronic manual within their organization
• Review the principles of the new Standards Improvement Initiative and relate these to their organizational processes
• Adapt and apply leadership strategies discussed during the session within their organization
• Formulate effective plans to meet National Patient Safety Goal issues and related requirements
• Explain what surveyors will be reviewing in regards to clinical assessment of clients for suicidal and homicidal risk, environmental assessment for hanging and strangulation risk, and staff communication and participation in risk reduction efforts
  
  Target Audience:

Individuals that work in community mental health centers, community-or facility-based behavioral health care organizations, agencies serving children, youth and their families, addictions treatment programs, opioid treatment programs, psychiatric hospitals, and medical-surgical hospitals with psychiatric or dependency programs/services

 

7:00 - 8:00 am
Registration, and Continental Breakfast

8:00 - 8:15 am
Welcome and Introductions

Mary Cesare-Murphy, PhD
Executive Director
Behavioral Health Care Accreditation
The Joint Commission

8:15 - 9:45 am
Improving the Accreditation Process: Countdown to 2009 and Beyond

Learn how criticality will affect scoring and changes to post-survey activities.

Mary Cesare-Murphy, PhD
Executive Director
Behavioral Health Care Accreditation
The Joint Commission

9:45 - 10:15 am
Electronic Manual Demonstration

Observe a demonstration of the functionalities of the new user-friendly, electronic Behavioral Health Care manual (E-ditions) to access and use within their setting.

Brent Compton
CIO
Joint Commission Resources and Joint Commission International

10:15 - 10:30 am
Break

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Standards Improvement Initiative

Take this opportunity to review the Hospital manual revisions/layout, new chapters and more.

Richard Scalenghe, CPHQ
CSR Consultant
Joint Commission Resources

12:00 - 1:00 pm
Lunch

1:00 - 2:15 pm
Leadership

This session provides an update on the revised Leadership chapter that goes into effect January 1, 2009.

National Patient Safety Goals

This session provides an update on the new National Patient Safety Goals that go into effect January 1, 2009

Richard Scalenghe, CPHQ
CSR Consultant
Joint Commission Resources

2:15 - 2:30 pm
Break

2:30 - 3:45 pm
Life Safety: Suicide and Homicide Risk Reduction in Psychiatric Facilities

This presentation will explain what surveyors will be reviewing in regards to clinical assessment of clients for suicidal and homicidal risk, environmental assessment for hanging and strangulation risk, and staff communication and participation in risk reduction efforts.

David Wadner, PhD
Field Director
Surveyor Management & Development
The Joint Commission

Charles "Skip" Wilson, BS, MBA
Associate Director/Engineer
Standards Interpretation Group
The Joint Commission

3:45 - 4:00 pm
Questions and Answers

4:00 pm
Adjourn

December 8, 2008, Chicago, IL

Hotel Information and Program Location
Westin Michigan Avenue
909 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 888-627-8385
Room rate: $179
Cut-off date: November 17, 2008

2009 Annual Behavioral Health Care Conference
Fall 2009
Chicago, IL

The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Resources (JCR) are seeking proposals for practitioner-based, change-focused practices for its 2009 Annual Behavioral Health Care Conference. The focus of the session(s) should include new processes, technologies, techniques and/or tools, creativity and innovation used within any health care setting that has achieved sustained improvements related to the key health care issues. Please check the appropriate answers within the application. Presentation proposals and deliverables must be submitted via online registration found at the bottom of the page.  Submission due date is October 1, 2008.  Confirmation of receipt of your submission will be sent via e-mail.   Questions may be submitted to: behavioralconf2009@jcrinc.com. 

Joint Commission Resources encourages faculty at live conferences to engage the audience and integrate them as part of faculty presentations. We find this is a value added component to education and provides the audience with an experiential part of learning. Engaging the audience could include using workgroups, quizzes, voting systems, interactive communication, problem-solving, etc. Should your abstract be accepted and you be selected for a live presentation, please be sure to tell us how you could integrate the audience into your presentation within your application.

Proposal Information

1. Enter your Information
    a. Enter the title of the proposed presentation.
    b. Provide presentation topic, length, target audience, work setting, seminar description, and teaching method.
    c. Provide at least one learning objectives for the session.

2. Enter presenter information
    a. Provide the name and preferred contact information.
    b. Give a brief description of your prefessional experience related to the topic and biography (limited to 100 words).
    c. Note any prior presentations made, location, dates and references (when applicable).
    d. Note: There is a limit of two presenters.

3. Confirm and submit proposal information.

To begin the online submission process, click on this link:  Online submission form.  On the application drop down box, please pick the call for presentation you would like to submit.  

The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Resources/Joint Commission International value the relationships shared with corporate underwriters. Through support in the form of unrestricted grants, corporate underwriters provide an important means for enriching the content and quality of our products and services. For further details about the 2008 opportunities for corporate underwriting support, please contact Karin Jay, Director of Corporate Development at 630.268.7460 or kjay@jcrinc.com or Corinne Prabhaker, Development Coordinator at 630.268.3748 or cprabhaker@jcrinc.com.

December 8, 2008, Chicago, IL
Program code: 08115
Program fee: $495 per registrant
Early bird fee: $395 per registrant
(Expires 30 days before the program)
To register for this program, please call Customer Service at 877-223-6866.

Please note: JCR’s concern for safety, quality, and sustainability extends beyond the health care setting. We’ve gone paperless in an effort to reduce paper waste and mitigate our impact on the environment. Handouts will be provided onsite.  You can download program materials from our website once the program is over. The necessary login and password information will be provided to you at the seminar.