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As of July 1, 2006, hospitals are required to improve the planning and evaluation of emergency management exercises under revised standard EC 4.20. This change is being made to help ensure that providers are conducting emergency management exercises, formerly called drills, rigorously and thoroughly, according to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
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To meet the revised standard for emergency management exercises from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, hospitals must determine how they are going to allocate resources that may be in short supply in an emergency situation.
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Standards have been added and revised in the accreditation manuals for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations to address the verification of credentials and assignment of responsibilities for volunteers who are not licensed independent practitioners during disasters, as well as licensed independent practitioners.
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is conducting free monthly one-hour audio conferences with Joint Commission president Dennis S. O'Leary, MD. The dates and topics for upcoming audioconferences are:
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Beginning Jan. 1, 2007, hospitals will be required to develop a policy regarding organ donation after cardiac death, based on the revised organ procurement and donation standard (LD.3.110).
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On May 30, 2006, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), and the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) did something they had never done before: They wrote a letter in concert to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) expressing their concerns about an issue affecting emergency medicine practitioners.
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In a May 30, 2006, letter under the letterheads of all three organizations, the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), and the Emergency Nurses Association (ENA) voiced their objections to National Patient Safety Goal No. 8 from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
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Since there are no guarantees as to when or if the objections of emergency medicine groups to standard MM 4.10 from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will result in any modifications, it's critical for ED managers to know exactly what the Joint Commission is looking for when it comes to compliance with the standard.
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Computer screening may increase the odds that a woman at risk for domestic violence will talk to a health care professional in the ED, according to a recent article in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
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The Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) three-year "Future of Emergency Care" project, recently completed, includes recommendations for the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
