Joint Commission Leadership Standards: Achieving High-Quality Patient Care

Achieving high-quality patient care in healthcare organizations begins with effective leadership.

Advertisement

Here are five goals leaders need to keep in mind, according to Leadership in Healthcare Organizations: A Guide to Joint Commission Leadership Standards.

1.    Create a culture of safety and quality.
2.    Plan and provide services that meet patient needs.
3.    Ensure availability of human, financial, physical and information resources.
4.    Always have a sufficient number of staff members available to provide care.
5.    Continually evaluate and improve performance.

More Articles on Accreditation:
AAAHC: 3 Steps to Effectively Implement Surgical Checklists at ASCs
Joint Commission Accredits Everett Bone & Joint Ambulatory Surgery Center
AAAHC Introduces Quality Care Finder App

Advertisement

Next Up in ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

  • The federal physician self-referral law — better known as the Stark law — was enacted in 1989 and aims to…

  • Hospital consolidation continued in the past month, with health systems across the U.S. signing and closing merger, acquisition and transfer…

Advertisement

Comments are closed.