JCAHO's Most Challenging Standards
Rita Jackson PhD, RD

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Health Care Food & Nutrition Focus
August 2005 
Volume 22  Number 8
Pages 1 - 6
 
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Section Editor(s): Jackson, Rita PhD, RD

It's helpful for practitioners and educators in our field to learn about the standards that are most frequently identified as “not compliant” by the Joint Commission.

This article describes the most challenging standards found from January through December of 2004 during surveys in hospitals (Hosp), ambulatory care (Amb), long-term care (LTC), Medicare/Medicaid certification-based long-term care (MLTC), assisted-living facilities, behavioral health care (Beh), and home care (Home). 1

Information Management

Organizations should have processes in place to effectively manage information, which includes capturing, reporting, processing, storing, retrieving, disseminating, and displaying clinical/service and nonclinical data (IM.3.10).

The percentage for noncompliance with IM.3.10 for each type of organization is shown below along with how this standard ranked on their top 10 list of problematic ...

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