title: On accreditation of healthcare organizations. Joint Commission offers advice for improving standards compliance.
abstract: If your home care organization is preparing for a Joint Commission survey, you're probably very concerned about complying with the standards. The intent of meeting standards is not only to receive accreditation but also to improve patient care. And, as you will find, some of the standards are more difficult to comply with than others. This article identifies the 10 standards in patient-focused functions with which home care organizations had the most difficulty complying in 1995. These are the standards for which home care organizations most often received scores of 3 (partial compliance), 4 (minimal compliance), and 5 (noncompliance). The findings are from home care surveys that were conducted between January 1 and July 1 of 1995 in which the 1995 Accreditation Manual for Home Care was used. This manual will be used for surveys conducted through all of 1996.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Popovich
mesh_terms: D006699:Home Care Services / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D011787:Quality of Health Care