Accreditation

Sharing Solutions

Inside the Joint Commission shares resources developed by hospitals around the country to help you comply with hospital accreditation standards and National Patient Safety Goals. These may include forms, templates, guidelines, policies, and procedures that you can customize to fit your hospital's needs. Here is the latest set of shared resources for your use:

• Excel Spreadsheet for AHRQ Culture of Safety Survey (.xls)
• C. difficile Bundle Checklist (.pdf)
• C. difficile Environmental Checklist (.pdf)
• Web-based Infection Control Patient Safety Alert
• The day the surveyors showed up, here's the list of items they gave to one hospital surveyed in June 2008.
• To see the list of recredentialing indicators from a Joint Commission physician surveyor, email syin@decisionhealth.com for a copy.
• Anticoagulation Assessment Grid (.xls)
• Acute Care Anticoagulation Specialist Job Description (.pdf)
• Building an Anticoagulation Team (introductory email) (.pdf)
• Meet National Patient Safety Goal 3E (Anticoagulation) (.pdf)
• Patient Safety Rounds Executive Survey Form (.doc)

If you have questions or comments about these tools, or suggestions for others, contact editor Sandra Yin at syin@decisionhealth.com.

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