As organizations committed to ensuring that health care consumers are appropriately informed about their treatment options, we are writing to request a modification of the current Joint Commission on ...

Inspectors from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations toured hospitals in New Orleans over the weekend. Their report: "essentially the health care infrastructure of New ...

The new JCAHO medication management standards place a greater emphasis on medication safety and are more detailed and prescriptive than previous standards. Compliance with the standards may pose a ...

Standard MM.2.20 Medications are properly and safely stored throughout the organization. This new standard for medication storage was adopted from standards in other programs. JCAHO requires that only ...