In the news: Joint Commission releases new scoring information

Accreditation professionals across the country have known for months that revisions to Joint Commission standards will go into effect on July 1. One unanswered question has stood out among others: How will hospitals be scored on the various changes The Joint Commission has announced?

We now have an answer. The Joint Commission has released scoring guidelines for the current list of revisions that it is expected to implement on July 1.

Four days after The Joint Commission’s 2009 standards went into effect, it released an update intended to help bring existing standards in line with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions of Participation. Since that time, The Joint Commission has released a second update with proposed revisions to the standards, cutting the number of revisions in half.

The Joint Commission is currently undergoing the application process for continued deeming authority with CMS. These latest revisions resulted from discussions with CMS during which certain new or revised standards were found to be covered elsewhere in the standards and thus unneeded.

Read more at the Association for Healthcare Accreditation Professionals blog.