Regulatory Agency
Regulatory Agency
Regulatory agencies are put in place to ensure that health care organizations and the providers within them promote safety, legal compliance, and quality care for patients. Regulating health care is vital because if health care organizations were not required to be accredited patients would not feel safe when seeking health care services. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations otherwise known as JCAHO is a regulatory agency. The JCAHO “conducts periodic on-site surveys to verify that an accredited organization substantially complies with Joint Commission standards and continuously makes efforts to improve the care and services it provides” (The Joint Commission, 2010, p. 3). The JCAHO ensures that health care organizations and providers uphold the standards required. The JCAHO strives to constantly improve the safety and quality of care provided to patients; this is why the JCAHO has had a longstanding history.
History of the Joint Commission of Health Care Organizations
In 1910, Ernest A. Codman, M.D., realized that many health care providers were practicing medicine that was not in their scope of training. Codman then “proposed the end result system of hospital standardization. Codman thought that if hospitals were to track every patient and the patient were treated long enough it could be determined whether the treatment was effective and use the results to improve care” (2010, A Circular Century, p. 26). In 1913, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) was created and by 1918, the American College of Surgeons completed the first round of inspection of hospitals. When this was done the ACS found that only 89 out of 692 hospitals were meeting the minimum standards required. In 1951, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals was founded as a nonprofit organization (The Joint Commission, 2010). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals has grown since first established in 1951; the JCAHO has become
Regulatory agencies are put in place to ensure that health care organizations and the providers within them promote safety, legal compliance, and quality care for patients. Regulating health care is vital because if health care organizations were not required to be accredited patients would not feel safe when seeking health care services. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations otherwise known as JCAHO is a regulatory agency. The JCAHO “conducts periodic on-site surveys to verify that an accredited organization substantially complies with Joint Commission standards and continuously makes efforts to improve the care and services it provides” (The Joint Commission, 2010, p. 3). The JCAHO ensures that health care organizations and providers uphold the standards required. The JCAHO strives to constantly improve the safety and quality of care provided to patients; this is why the JCAHO has had a longstanding history.
History of the Joint Commission of Health Care Organizations
In 1910, Ernest A. Codman, M.D., realized that many health care providers were practicing medicine that was not in their scope of training. Codman then “proposed the end result system of hospital standardization. Codman thought that if hospitals were to track every patient and the patient were treated long enough it could be determined whether the treatment was effective and use the results to improve care” (2010, A Circular Century, p. 26). In 1913, the American College of Surgeons (ACS) was created and by 1918, the American College of Surgeons completed the first round of inspection of hospitals. When this was done the ACS found that only 89 out of 692 hospitals were meeting the minimum standards required. In 1951, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals was founded as a nonprofit organization (The Joint Commission, 2010). The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals has grown since first established in 1951; the JCAHO has become
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