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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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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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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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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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Question: How should ED managers respond to requests from physicians to resign limited clinical privileges?
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You might think that with the population of New Orleans greatly reduced following the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the city's EDs would find the going a bit easier.
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Almost three-quarters of ED medical directors responding to a survey reported inadequate on-call specialist coverage, compared with two-thirds in 2004, according to a new report released by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP).
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) has approved an infection control standard that requires accredited organizations to offer influenza vaccinations to staff, which includes volunteers, and licensed independent practitioners with close patient contact.
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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.
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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.