Are you a facility manager or emergency management coordinator who only needs Joint Commission standards that apply to the physical environment or emergency planning not the whole manual? Or, do you work in a health care system or as a vendor and need to accurately align compliance efforts across hospital, ambulatory surgery centers, outpatient behavioral clinics, or other settings of care?

Make standards compliance and preparing for survey easier with 2021 Environment of Care® Essentials for Health Care. This indispensable spiral-bound or PDF volume bundles the environment of care (EC), emergency management (EM), and life safety (LS) standards and elements of performance (EPs) for all settings in one convenient reference so the information you need is always right at your fingertips. Equipment management (EQ) standards, which appear only in the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Home Care, are also included.

A recently redesigned matrix will help you streamline compliance efforts in your facility and your health care system, allowing you to quickly cross-reference EC, EM, and LS requirements across settings. You can see similarities and differences at a glance. A simple matrix included at each requirement clearly identifies (with an x ) whether the requirement applies in each of the eight Joint Commission accreditation programs. Bracketed wording indicates how and where wording varies slightly across programs. Conversely, if standards, EPs, or notes vary greatly, abbreviations appear in brackets after that text noting it applies only to the programs listed, for example, ambulatory care (AHC), critical access hospitals (CAH), and hospitals (HAP).

Key Topics

• Essential information for complying with EC requirements with regard to safety, security, hazardous materials and waste, medical equipment and utility systems, and fire safety
• Complete Emergency Operations Plan/Emergency Management Plan requirements
• Unabridged LS management requirements aligned with the 2012 Life Safety Code®*

Key Features

• All EC, EM, and LS standards and EPs effective January 1, 2021
• Streamlined grid that compares standards across the continuum of care to promote continuous accreditation readiness for all organizations, including those listed under Settings below
• Glossary terms with clear, straightforward definitions

Standards: EC, EM, and LS (across all settings) and EQ (home care only)

Settings: All Joint Commission accreditation programs, including ambulatory health care, behavioral health care and human services, critical access hospitals, home care, hospitals, laboratory services, nursing care centers, and office-based surgery centers

Key Audience: Facility managers, Emergency managers, Life safety experts, Staff engineers, Accreditation and regulatory staff, Risk managers, Health care facilities consultants and vendors.

Continuous compliance starts with staff who know what The Joint Commission requires and this manual provides you with direct access to the elements of performance for hospital standards, National Patient Safety Goals, and Accreditation Participation Requirements (APRs). Our best-selling manual is portable, lean, and light, making it a perfect on-the-go reference. Keep it handy in meetings, during orientation and training, and as a practical overview of the Joint Commission s accreditation requirements for everyone in your organization, from staff to executive leaders.

Please note: This spiral-bound book is truly an abridged version of the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals. It contains all the applicable standards and elements of performance, but the accreditation process information chapters with accreditation policies and procedures, initiatives, and summaries ARE NOT INCLUDED.

Key Topics:

• All hospital standards, National Patient Safety Goals, and Accreditation Participation Requirements as of January 1, 2021
• A Glossary defining key terms used in the Joint Commission standards
• Does NOT INCLUDE the following: The Accreditation Process, Sentinel Event Policy, The Quality Report, Required Written Documentation, Standards Applicability Grid, and other accreditation process chapters from the comprehensive manual

Key Features:

• Abridged version of the comprehensive manual only scored standards chapters included
• Tabs allow you to find exactly what you need when you need it
• Softcover, spiral-bound book

Standards: All hospital standards

Setting: Organizations accredited under the Hospital Accreditation Program, including general, acute psychiatric, pediatric, medical/surgical specialty, long term acute care, and rehabilitation hospitals

Key Audience: Staff responsible for accreditation, compliance, patient safety, or quality improvement

If you d prefer a manual with Joint Commission accreditation process information or one that can be updated with replacement pages, consider the 2021 Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals

Continuous compliance starts with staff who know what The Joint Commission requires. The 2022 Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Laboratory and Point-of-Care Testing (CAMLAB) provides the key information your organization needs to power performance improvement and maintain continuous standards compliance. It features the official Joint Commission standards, National Patient Safety Goals^®, and other accreditation requirements.

The portable CAMLAB is spiral bound with color-coded tabs that allow you to find exactly what you need for standards compliance or survey readiness when you need it. Inside you’ll find descriptions of the survey and decision process, questions to prompt discussion in your organization about compliance with the standards, checklists of the elements of performance that require written documentation, and action planning worksheets to address any issues of noncompliance.

It's lean and light, making it a perfect on-the-go reference. Keep it handy in meetings, during orientation and training, and as a practical overview of the Joint Commission’s accreditation requirements for everyone in your organization, from staff to leaders. Then, get ready to power performance improvement and excellence in your laboratory services!

Please note: The CAMLAB is delivered annually.

Key Topics:

• "Gold tab" standards requirements including the standards, National Patient Safety Goals, and Accreditation Participation Requirements effective January 1, 2022
• "Blue tab" accreditation process information about Joint Commission policies and procedures and practical survey preparation information on the Early Survey Policy, documentation requirements, patient safety systems and more
• Several appendixes, including one on standards related to Individualized Quality Control Plans (IQCP) and a new one on duplicated standards between the laboratory and hospital accreditation programs
• Keys to successfully using the manual for survey preparedness

Key Features:

• Survey readiness tools including compliance prompts, documentation checklists, and action planning worksheets in every standards chapter
• Icons to help navigate documentation requirements as well as risk areas
• "What's New" summary of changes made since the previous print edition
• Color-coded blue and gold tabs allow you to find exactly what you need when you need it
• Softcover, spiral-bound book

Standards: All laboratory standards

Setting: Organizations accredited under the Laboratory Accreditation Program, including

• Laboratories in hospitals, clinics, nursing care facilities, home care organizations, behavioral health care organizations, ambulatory sites and physician offices
• Reference laboratories
• Freestanding laboratories, such as assisted reproductive technology laboratories
• Blood transfusion and donor center laboratories
• Public health laboratories, including Indian Health Service laboratories
• Laboratories in federal health care facilities, such as the Department of Veterans Affairs
• Point-of-care test sites in patient care areas, which may include blood gas laboratories providing services to patients in emergency rooms, surgical suites, and cardiac catheterization laboratories

Key Audience: Staff responsible for accreditation, compliance, patient safety,

Key Topics:

• All hospital standards, National Patient Safety Goals and Accreditation Participation Requirements as of January 1, 2022
• A Glossary defining key terms used in the Joint Commission standards
• Does NOT INCLUDE the following: The Accreditation Process, Sentinel Event Policy, The Quality Report, Required Written Documentation, Standards Applicability Grid, and other accreditation process chapters from the comprehensive manual

Key Features:

• Abridged version of the comprehensive manual―only scored standards chapters included
• Tabs allow you to find exactly what you need when you need it
• Softcover, spiral-bound book

Standards: All hospital standards

Setting: Organizations accredited under the Hospital Accreditation Program, including general, acute psychiatric, pediatric, medical/surgical specialty, long term acute care, and rehabilitation hospitals

Key Audience: Staff responsible for accreditation, compliance, patient safety, or quality improvement.

If you’d prefer a manual with Joint Commission accreditation process information or one that can be updated with replacement pages, consider the 2022 Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals. Or, if you’re looking for the readability of a hard-copy manual and the accessibility of digital access consider our PDF version of the CAMH.

Continuous compliance starts with staff who know what The Joint Commission requires—and this manual provides you with direct access to the standards, elements of performance (EPs), National Patient Safety Goals®, and Accreditation Participation Requirements (APRs) for any ambulatory care organization. 

The portable 2023 Standards for Ambulatory Care is lean and light, making it a perfect on-the-go reference. Keep it handy in meetings, during orientation and training, and as a practical overview of The Joint Commission’s accreditation requirements for everyone in your organization, from staff to leaders.

Please note: This book is truly an abridged version of the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Ambulatory Care. It contains all the applicable standards and EPs, but the accreditation process information chapters with accreditation policies and procedures, initiatives, and summaries ARE NOT INCLUDED.  

Key Topics:
All ambulatory care standards, National Patient Safety Goals, and APRs as of January 1, 2023
A Glossary defining key terms used in Joint Commission standards
Does NOT INCLUDE the following: The Accreditation Process, Sentinel Event Policy, The Joint Commission Quality Report, Required Written Documentation, and other accreditation process information chapters from the CAMAC

According to World Health Organization statistics, adverse events in health care affect 1 in 300 patients, resulting in tragedy for patients and their families and taxing an already overburdened health care system. To address and prevent reoccurrences of such errors, The Joint Commission s Sentinel Event Policy requires accredited health care organizations to identify and examine the system failures or defects that contributed to the adverse or sentinel event. Root cause analysis (RCA) provides a systematic approach to identifying these contributing factors. And in the interest of identifying potential safety problems before they occur, proactive risk assessment, of which one type is failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), uses a prospective approach to improve the likelihood of favorable outcomes and to prevent harm to patients.

Root Cause Analysis in Health Care: A Joint Commission Guide to Analysis and Corrective Action of Sentinel and Adverse Events will take readers step by step through the process of conducting RCA in their organizations. It will also offer strategies and suggestions for implementing FMEA. Featuring a newly streamlined, approachable design, this 7th edition of our best-selling Root Cause Analysis in Health Care will guide health care organizations through the Joint Commission requirements, outlining steps to prevent sentinel events such as medication errors, patient suicide, wrong-site surgery, patient elopement, and more. Refreshed tools and examples will help organizations collect the data they need and demonstrate how to use that data to learn from previous experience.

Key Topics

• Overview of root cause analysis and how it is used as a response to a sentinel event
• Overview of proactive risk assessment and how it is used to prevent process and product problems before they occur
• Addressing sentinel events and adverse events in policy and practice
• Preparing for a root cause analysis
• Conducting root cause analysis
• Determining proximate and root causes
• Designing and implementing a corrective action plan for improvement

Key Features

• A comprehensive four-phase root cause analysis framework that links to The Joint Commission s 21-Step Framework for a Root Cause Analysis
• Downloadable and adaptable checklists and worksheets for applying the framework
• Tools to Try (many of which are downloadable and adaptable) that help users implement root cause analysis in their organizations
• A downloadable and editable version of The Joint Commission s Framework for a Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action Plan
• Information about FMEA

Standards: Leadership, Performance Improvement

Setting: Ambulatory Care, Behavioral Health Care, Critical Access Hospital, Home Care, Hospital, Office-Based Surgery, Nursing Care Centers, Laboratory

Key Audience: Risk managers, quality improvement staff, patient safety officers, compliance managers, accreditation professionals, staff educators, and health care executives and administrators across health care settings

Operating rooms and surgical suites are the sites of modern-day miracles. Yet we all know that in the complex and dynamic environment of the OR, with its constant change and time pressures, opportunities for errors abound with high-tech equipment, potentially lethal drugs, evolving pathogens, and situational and environmental factors. That s why surgical settings need to be continuously and consistently providing the best, safest, and highest quality care possible. Joint Commission accreditation is key to the provision of safe patient care. This brand-new book is the first of its kind an accreditation prep guide specifically for surgical settings.

Survey Readiness Guide for Surgical Settings: Standards, Tracers, and Tools is a comprehensive self-assessment, survey-readiness tool. It includes all relevant Joint Commission accreditation standards and provides an overview of The Joint Commission survey process, in general, and as it pertains to achieving and maintaining compliance in hospitals, critical access hospitals, office-based surgery practices, and outpatient and ambulatory surgical centers. It also explains mock tracers in surgical settings. This book is just what health care professionals in surgical settings need to ensure that they understand and are meeting The Joint Commissions requirements. Everything in this book is specific to perioperative care.

This first\-ever, comprehensive guide to Joint Commission―required risk assessments was created specifically at customer request. Risk assessment was the #1 need identified by JCR customers in a recent market research study.

This book includes a list of all Joint Commission standards across all health care settings that specifically require a risk assessment―and then goes on to explain and demonstrate how to comply with those risk assessment requirements. The book offers sample risk assessments, tools, mock tracers, checklists, and other strategies to help your organization to comply with those Joint Commission standards requiring risk assessment. Of course, Joint Commission standards are all about risk assessment―but this book explains which particular standards necessitate a formal risk assessment from your organization.

Specific topics covered include infection prevention and control, emergency management, environment of care, leadership, and more―all very timely and relevant in light of the current pandemic. Not only will this book help you to comply with Joint Commission requirements for risk assessment, but more importantly, it will help you to ensure that you are providing the safest, high\-quality care possible for your patients and individuals served.