6 | Joint Comission
IMPROVING PATIENT
SAFETY AND HEALTH CARE
QUALITY
One of the greatest challenges facing health
care is providing reliably safe, high-quali-
ty care. The Joint Commission has a more
than 60-year history of improving health
care through accreditation and certification.
Each time The Joint Commission raised the
bar on quality and patient safety, its accredit-
ed and certified organizations and the health
care professionals in those organizations
have met the challenge, to the benefit of
the patients they serve. As part of The Joint
Commission’s accreditation and certification
process, organizations have met important
