title: Joint Commission veers from hard-line approach.
abstract: Three months ago, the prevailing wisdom was that the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations had taken a harder line in light of recent criticism that it was soft on the hospitals it accredits. Exhibit A was the Joint Commission's unexpected decision to slap Shady Grove Adventist Hospital with preliminary non-accreditation. Now, however, JCAHO's Accreditation Committee has rescinded that decision, and its new revision to its public information policy turns out to be more style than substance.
mesh_terms: D000068:Accreditation; D003625:Data Collection; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D014481:United States