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Survey coordinators and accreditation professionals are busier than ever.
In addition to many other job responsibilities, you’re under constant pressure to ensure Joint Commission standards compliance, training, and continuous survey readiness across all departments of your hospital. You can wade through countless resources in search of ways to prepare for Joint Commission survey. Or you can save yourself the trouble and turn to HCPro’s best-selling book, The Joint Commission Survey Coordinator’s Handbook.
Now in its ninth edition, this fully updated guide for 2008 is your all-in-one resource for Joint Commission standards compliance and survey preparation. Packed with expert advice, best practices, and sample tools, it saves you the time-intensive task of researching and managing Joint Commission accreditation activities on your own. P
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The Handbook’s practical ideas to use right away in your everyday operations. With real-world tips and strategies, it’ll help keep you and your staff organized and continuously survey-ready.
Includes FREE sample tools and forms on CD!
When you purchase your copy of The Joint Commission Survey Coordinator’s Handbook, you also receive a FREE companion CD-ROM. You’ll find all of the sample forms, charts, checklists, and policies from the book in one convenient spot.
What’s NEW in the Ninth Edition?
- New case studies: Including a firsthand account of how leadership can become more involved in the accreditation and survey readiness process
- A new chapter on medication storage: Medication storage remains an area of constant frustration for hospitals across the country. Learn how to remainsurvey-ready for this troublesome standard
- Post survey survival guide: A new chapter discusses exactly what needs to be done in the days and months following your survey—from how to respond to RFIs to maintaining continuous readiness and keep up with standards changes throughout the year
- New survey readiness tools: We’ve updated our survey readiness chapter to include on CD more than a dozen tools to help prepare for your survey
Take a look at the table of contents:
Chapter 1: Joint Commission basics
Chapter 2: Leaders need to lead the process to attain continuous standards compliance
Chapter 3: The standards made simple
Chapter 4: The National Patient Safety Goals
Chapter 5: The periodic performance review (PPR)
Chapter 6: A focused look at a problematic standard: medication storage
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hapter 7: A guide to practical survey readiness: Tasks, tools, and strategies
Chapter 8: At the conclusion of the survey
Appendix A: Document management
Appendix B: Common Joint Commission and healthcare acronyms
Appendix C: Glossary of helpful healthcare terms
Meet our top Joint Commission accreditation consultants.
Patricia Pejakovich, RN , BSN , MPA, CPHQ, is a consultant for The Greeley Company, specializing in quality and performance improvement, accreditation, utilization management, credentialing, clinical pathway development, and data management and design. Ms. Pejakovich has more than 30 years of experience in nursing and healthcare, and for more than 20 years has specialized in quality and performance improvement. She has expertise in assessing performance improvement processes, reviewing accreditation standards, formulating and implementing action plans to address improvement, promoting integration of accreditation standards, personnel management, developing policies, procedures, forms, documents, tools, and reports to support improvement activities, and much more.
Steven W. Bryant is the vice president and managing director of The Greeley Company, a division of HCPro, Inc. He is responsible for The Greeley Company’s mock surveys, on-site education programs, survey preparation for medical staff leaders, continuum/non-hospital services, just-in-time training, survey observations, and various other consulting/professional services. Mr. Bryant consults and lectures on effective Joint Commission survey preparation, OSHA, DEA, EPA, DEP, DPH, ADA, and performance improvement activities. He works extensively with hospitals, ambulatory care, long-term care, home care, behavioral health, and physician practice services in preparing for and responding to Joint Commission accreditation and OSHA compliance.
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