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Joint Commission Accreditation Changes

Tue, 11/11/2008 - 08:31
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(The Joint Commission: Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois) -- Beginning Jan. 1, 2009, under a new Joint Commission policy, laboratory accreditation decisions will no longer immediately affect hospital accreditation decisions. This policy establishes comparability in the way that a laboratory with an adverse accreditation decision rendered by The Joint Commission or one of its cooperative partners such as the College of American Pathologists (CAP), or COLA (the clinical laboratory education, consultation, and accreditation organization) affects the hospital or other organizations with which the laboratory is affiliated. Currently, a laboratory’s accreditation has a direct effect on the accreditation status of its affiliated organization.

Under the new policy, the accreditation of laboratories and hospitals will continue to be linked due to the critical importance of laboratory services to the delivery of hospital care. An adverse laboratory accreditation decision, whether due to a survey by The Joint Commission, CAP, or COLA, will help prioritize the hospital’s or other organization’s next unannounced survey.

“The new approach meets the needs of Joint Commission customers and reinforces the importance of the laboratory in the delivery of patient care,” says Ann Scott Blouin, Ph.D., R.N., executive vice president in the division of accreditation and certification operations for The Joint Commission.

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