As we know, TJC has deeming authority from CMS for both acute care hospitals and psychiatric hospitals. As part of its oversight of TJC’s deemed status survey process, CMS conducts validation surveys to assess TJC’s performance in evaluating a hospital’s compliance...
read moreAs reported in our March newsletter, significant changes are occurring to the TJC accreditation process for psychiatric hospitals. TJC recently sent an email to all psychiatric hospitals that use accreditation for deemed status. It outlined the changes to survey...
read moreIf you are a psychiatric hospital that uses TJC accreditation for deemed status, you probably received an email communication recently from TJC entitled “Important Update on The Joint Commission Accreditation Process for Psychiatric Hospitals.” This notification...
read moreEffective February 1, 2015, revised requirements go into effect for psychiatric hospitals that use Joint Commission accreditation for deemed status. TJC added one new requirement and revised nine elements of performance in order to ensure alignment with the CMS...
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