Joint Commission Survey Readiness
Consulting Services | Clinical Operations | Joint Commission Survey ReadinessThe financial consequences of losing Joint Commission accreditation can be significant.
When CMS Conditions of Participation are not met, implications can include loss of funding and the imposition of fines. Additionally, noncompliance with Core Measure indicators can impact commercial and managed care funding.
While a number of factors impact achieving and maintaining Joint Commission accreditation, a QHR Joint Commission Readiness consultation can help you achieve success and avoid costly fines and loss of revenue.
Here’s how QHR can help.
QHR prepares you for the Joint Commission’s Shared Visions - New Pathways®, which requires organizations to demonstrate continuous survey readiness and know how their facility measures up at any given moment.
Our Clinical Operations experts help you design and implement a continuous survey readiness program that is comprehensive, collaborative, educational and consultative, and helps ensure that your facility remains compliant with Joint Commission Standards.
Through the QHR Learning Institute, we offer both classroom and Web-based Joint Commission education programs to teach your team how to maintain survey readiness. Our consultants also work in collaboration with your staff through periodic on-site and off-site consultation (teleconferences, electronic communication, document review, document preparation, etc.) and other activities, as needed.
Specifically, we provide:
- Assistance in developing a cross-functional Joint Commission preparation team with members from administrative and clinical departments
- Review of the accreditation process with your organization’s Joint Commission team leader
- Support in interpretation of Joint Commission Standards
- Review of existing documents for Standards compliance
- Guidance in the development of documents, such as policies, procedures, program descriptions and program evaluations
- Assistance in implementing recommendations for improvement
- Review of performance measurement indicators
- Periodic on-site mock surveys
- One-on-one or small group education, training and consultation on all things Joint Commission
The Joint Commission can and will survey your HR department without notice. We’ll help you be ready…instead of worried.
