On July 1, The Joint Commission’s (TJC) new and revised requirements for opioid treatment programs (OTP) will take effect for healthcare organizations accredited under the Behavioral Health and Human Services program. TJC writes that the update will increase access to life-saving medications for...
The March edition of The Joint Commission’s Perspectives announced that as of March 30, 2025, accreditation surveys for hospices would include a Life Safety Code® (LSC) surveyor. This comes as part of a group of new and revised requirements for deemed...
Fires don’t happen every day in healthcare, but that doesn’t mean they never happen. In the March edition of The Joint Commission’s (TJC) Environment of Care News, the commission discussed some clinical fires that happened in 2024—one caused by a high-flow oxygen humidifier, and another...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released significant revisions to Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 last year, reshaping how race and ethnicity data must be collected, reported, and analyzed by federal agencies—and any entities (like hospitals) that report or submit federal health...
The Joint Commission (TJC) announced its 2024 sentinel event statistics in the April 2025 edition of Perspectives, with a full data summary to be released later this year. Topping the list are falls, delays in treatment, suicide, and self-harm. The list is a glimpse at the patient...
This is Part 2 of our interview on improving healthcare for elderly patients with Ken Dychtwald, PhD, a psychologist, gerontologist, bestselling author, and the founder of Age Wave—a thought leader on business, social, healthcare, financial, workforce, and cultural implications...
From infection prevention and life safety, to the integration of AI in compliance monitoring, hospitals must navigate a wide range of regulatory and operational priorities—all while managing ongoing resource constraints.
Some things aren’t meant to be holey—like your hospital walls and ceilings. Despite that, 45% of last year’s hospital surveys were scored noncompliant on LS.02.01.10, element of performance (EP) 14, which covers this very issue.
This February, The Joint Commission (TJC) launched a new website with the intent of supporting healthcare organizations in developing their infection control (IC) and antimicrobial stewardship programs.
The Joint Commission (TJC) has put out several enhancements to its survey processes in 2025. One of the most notable is TJC’s redesigned survey report, put into action in January and applicable to all healthcare organizations that TJC accredits, certifies, and verifies. The commission wrote that...
