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Leading the Way to Zero
The Joint Commission Enterprise envisions a future of zero harm in health care and is committed to helping make it a reality.
,,We are on the journey to zero harm. We take a look at every aspect of care and how we can improve that care, improve that process to make sure that we do not have that fall, that infection. We have them for a short amount of time in ambulatory surgery, but you need to make them safe from the time they walk in until the time they’re at home recovering.,,
Karen Bewer - Director of Practice Operations - Advanced Pain Management
,,Joint Commission standards definitely help us focus on which aspects of care are most important when we’re looking at reaching zero harm. The idea of zero harm and high reliability is something that we learned about from The Joint Commission, and we really try to take it to heart and bring that to the core of our service and mission. It really aligns very nicely with our mission, and vision, and goals.,,
Chelsea Collins - Director of Performance Improvement and Accreditation - Rosecrance Health Network, Rockford, IL
,,By following Joint Commission standards, we have been able to reduce catheter infection rates in patients. By collecting metrics and looking at trends, we can pinpoint changes and quickly react to improve the patient outcome.,,
Barbara Prosser, RPh - Vice President, Clinical Operations - Soleo Health
,,In addition to enhancing our performance improvement practices, and increasing our discipline, accountability, and sense of pride, preparing for Joint Commission accreditation helped us on our path to becoming a high reliability organization.,,
Leanne Roggemann - Director of Quality - Westfields Hospital and Clinic, New Richmond, WI
,,The way that accreditation helps in achieving zero harm is a focus on process improvement. There’s an old saying, “If you’re not measuring it, you’re not managing it.” And in order to improve quality you have to first decide what you’re going to measure, and figure out what those issues are, and then you will begin a journey.,,
Fred Benjamin, FACHE - Senior Advisor - Lexington Health Network, Lombard, IL
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Patient Safety Topics
- Emergency Management
- Workforce Safety and Well-Being
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Infection Prevention and Control
- Infection Prevention and Control
- Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Toolkit and Monograph
- Ambulatory Health Care Infection Prevention and Control
- Antibiotic Stewardship
- Behavioral Health Care Infection Prevention and Control
- Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections
- Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections
- Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections
- Critical Access Hospital Infection Prevention and Control
- Dental
- Disinfection and Sterilization
- General Infection Prevention and Control
- Guidelines
- Hand Hygiene
- High Reliability and Infection Prevention
- Home Care Infection Prevention and Control
- Hospital Infection Prevention and Control
- Infection Prevention and Control Hierarchy
- Infection Prevention and Control Safety Alerts
- Infectious Disease Outbreaks and Response
- Influenza and Other Related Diseases
- Laboratory Infection Prevention and Control
- Legionnaires' Disease
- Multidrug-Resistant Organisms
- Nursing Care Center Infection Prevention and Control
- Respiratory Protection
- Sepsis
- Surgical Site Infections
- Vaccination
- Report a Patient Safety Concern or Complaint
- Suicide Prevention
- Zero Harm