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JCAHO

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JCAHOJoint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
JCAHOJoint Commission on Accreditation of Hospital Organizations


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The schemes sounds pretty clever, until you realize that a JCAHO visit to a hospital is akin to an OSHA inspection of a factory; once a person identifies him or herself as a representative of JCAHO, the facility essentially goes on red alert, and that person attracts escorts and the attention of the whole facility.
The new standards, which will be effective in July 2005, were revised for the Laboratory Accreditation Program and adopted for the Ambulatory Care, Critical Access Hospital and Hospital Accreditation Programs, according to JCAHO Online.
GAO analyzed CMS data on hospitals state surveyors found to have deficiencies in Medicare requirements that JCAHO surveyors did not detect, analyzed CMS's measure of JCAHO's ability to detect noncompliance with Medicare requirements, and interviewed JCAHO officials.
 
 
 
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