Content Description

 This monthly digital newsletter is the accurate and authoritative resource you need to improve your compliance with Joint Commission accreditation and certification requirements across all health care settings.  Perfect for health care leaders, frontline staff, and anyone responsible for ensuring compliance with Joint Commission requirements and educating staff, The Source’s blend of compliance strategies and solutions, news, and tools—straight from The Joint Commission—makes it a must-read that you’ll want to keep close at hand. 

Key Content

• Solutions to common problems related to Joint Commission standards compliance, patient safety, and more, covering all health care settings.
• Best-practice solutions and authoritative advice from Joint Commission surveyors and JCR consultants in the field
• Case studies featuring success stories full of practical tips for overcoming compliance challenges and improving patient safety
• Strategies for complying with the National Patient Safety Goals®, meeting performance measurement requirements, and achieving and sustaining quality improvement

Key Features

• Spotlight on Success—Insightful, “how we did it” stories on preventing medical errors, meeting standards, and improving patient safety and quality
• Tracer Methodology 101—scenarios, sample questions, and tips for conducting your own mock tracers
• CJCP®: Certified Joint Commission Professionals–—Sample questions to help you prepare for the CJCP exam
• Focus on Certification—Targeted articles highlighting challenging or evolving issues in Joint Commission certification programs
• Top News—a digest of the most current accreditation and health care news
• Infographics—at-a-glance graphical depictions of current health care data

Standards: All

Settings: Ambulatory Care, Behavioral Health Care, Critical Access Hospital, Home Care, Hospital, Office-Based Surgery, Nursing Care Centers, Laboratory, and Disease-Specific Care

Audience: The Source is the practical newsletter for accreditation, patient safety, quality improvement, and compliance professionals in all accredited and certified health care organizations.

About Joint Commission

The mission of The Joint Commission is to continuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value. Its vision is that all people always experience the safest, highest quality, best-value health care across all settings.