Joint Commission launches Center for Transforming Healthcare
The Joint Commission announced a new effort to address the nation’s biggest issues in terms of quality care and patient safety yesterday when it launched the Center for Transforming Healthcare. At the crux of the Center’s approach to improving patient safety is using Lean and Six Sigma to improve processes and address some of the challenges facing caregivers and patients. It hopes to offer specific guidance on how to solve issues like preventing healthcare-acquired infection, ensuring medication safety, coordinating safe patient handoffs, and focusing on surgical safety.
This not-for-profit has coordinated with some of the nation’s leading health systems to work on some of the above mentioned issues. You can find the full list by clicking here.
I did find it useful to know that starting midway through 2010, hospitals that are Joint Commission-accredited will be able to utilize an application on the site that will work with each facility individually to develop custom solutions.
About the Author: Heather Comak is a Managing Editor at HCPro, Inc., where she is the editor of the monthly publication Briefings on Patient Safety, as well as patient safety-related books, webcasts, and audio conferences. She is also is the Assistant Director of the Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals (www.accreditationprofessional.com) and manages Patient Safety Monitor (www.patientsafetymonitor.com), of which this blog is a part.
Contact Heather by e-mailing hcomak@hcpro.com
