The Joint Commission Benchmark is a newsletter for the performance measurement/improvement professional who wants to keep up-to-date on the latest performance measurement and improvement trends and activities. This newsletter is published 6 times yearly and offers not only current information on performance measurement and improvement but keeps you informed of the current happenings at The Joint Commission regarding ORYX® requirements, standards-based performance measurement requirements, and other industry news.
Look to The Joint Commission Benchmark for the following key features:
- PM Beat, highlighting important national performance measurement news
- Joint Commission Focus, keeping readers up-to-date on the latest Joint Commission performance measurement news
- National Data Report, including a synopsis of the performance measures from nationally recognized organizations
- Data Corner, providing expert advice on data collection and analysis issues
- Case Study, featuring performance measurement-related projects and lessons learned from real-life health care organizations
Senior Editor: Audrie Bretl
Project Manager: Meghan Anderson
Manager, Publications: Paul Reis
Executive Director of Publications: Catherine Chopp Hinckley, Ph.D.
Vice President, Learning: Charles Macfarlane, F.A.C.H.E.
The Joint Commission Benchmark Editorial Advisory Board is listed below.
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Reference to a name, organization, product, or service in The Joint Commission Benchmark should not be construed as an endorsement by the Joint Commission nor is failure to include a name, organization, product, or service to be construed as disapproval.
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Editorial Advisory Board
The Joint Commission Benchmark Editorial Advisory Board (in alphabetical order):
Arnold M. Epstein, M.D., M.A., is Chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard University School of Public Health where he is the John H. Foster Professor. He is also Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Section on Health Services and Policy Research in the Department of Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Linda S. Hanold, M.H.S.A., is the Director of the Department of Performance Measurement and Health Informatics at The Joint Commission. Hanold also serves as vice-chair of the National Coordinating Council on Medication Error Reporting and Prevention.
Ellen T. Kurtzman, R.N., M.P.H., is an Assistant Research Professor at The George Washington University. Kurtzman also serves as an examiner for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award and as an examiner for the U.S. Senate Productivity and Maryland Quality awards.
Jerod M. Loeb, Ph.D., is Executive Vice President, Division of Research at The Joint Commission. Loeb is also an Adjunct Professor of Physiology at Northwestern University Medical School and an Adjunct Associate for the Center for Health Policy and Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research at Stanford University.
David. B. Nash, M.D., M.B.A., is the Chairman of the Department of Health Policy at Thomas Jefferson University. Nash is also on the National Advisory Committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Partnerships in Quality Education program.
Sheila H. Roman, M.D., M.P.H., is the Senior Medical Officer in the Quality Measurement and Health Assessment Group at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Roman maintains her clinical practice at Johns Hopkins University Hospital where she is also an Associate Professor of Medicine.
Sharon L. Sprenger, R.H.I.A., C.P.H.Q., M.P.A., is the Project Director, Group on Performance Measurement at the Joint Commission. Sprenger has worked with National Quality Forum staff on the Hospital Care National Performance Measure and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality staff on the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse.
Douglas L. Wood, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.C.C., is Vice-Chair, Department of Internal Medicine, and a practicing cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic. Wood was appointed by the Minnesota governor to the Minnesota Citizens Forum on Health Care Costs and is a charter member of the Performance Measurement Advisory Council of The Joint Commission.