Product Description
The 2019 Comprehensive Certification Manual for Disease-Specific Care Certification Including Advanced Programs for Disease-Specific Care Certification features everything your disease-specific care program needs to attain or retain foundational or advanced certification. This certification manual provides the key information your program, organization, or firm needs to achieve and maintain continuous standards compliance and experience operational improvement. It describes the certification process and includes all the certification requirements that must be met to achieve The Gold Seal of Approval®.
Please Note: We do not offer print manuals for all Joint Commission certification programs. If you are interested in certification standards for comprehensive cardiac care, health care staffing services, integrated care, medication compounding, palliative care, patient blood management, or perinatal care, they are available only electronically through the
E-dition found on your Joint Commission Connect
TM extranet site or available for purchase.
Key Topics:
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"Gold tab" foundational and advanced standards and certification participation requirements for disease-specific care certification effective January 1, 2019
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Standards chapters for the eleven advanced disease-specific care certification programs:
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Acute Stroke Ready Hospital
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Chronic Kidney Disease
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
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Comprehensive Stroke Center
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Heart Failure
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Inpatient Diabetes Care
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Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
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Primary Stroke Center
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Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement
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Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center (TSC)
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Ventricular Assist Device Destination Therapy
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"Blue tab" chapters with details about The Joint Commission’s certification process, performance improvement, sentinel events, and more
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Keys to successfully using the manual to be prepared for onsite review
Key Features:
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Color-coded blue and gold tabs allow you to find exactly what you need when you need it, allowing you to focus on the most applicable requirements
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"What's New" summary of changes made since the previous print edition
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Icons to help navigate documentation requirements
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Softcover, spiral-bound book
Standards: All foundational and advanced disease-specific care standards
Setting: Clinical programs across the continuum of care that provide care and services for virtually any chronic disease or condition, including for the advanced certification programs listed above
Please Note: We do not offer print manuals for all Joint Commission certification programs. If you are interested in certification standards for comprehensive cardiac care, health care staffing services, integrated care, medication compounding, palliative care, patient blood management, or perinatal care, they are available only electronically through the
E-dition found on your Joint Commission Connect
TM extranet site or available for purchase. If you are interested in Primary Care Medical Home or Behavioral Health Home certification, please
click here and choose your health care setting: ambulatory care, behavioral health care, critical access hospital, or hospital.
Key Audience: Staff responsible for certification, compliance, patient safety, performance measurement, or quality improvement in a program seeking or maintaing DSC certification