July 2013
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standards to improve patient-centered com-
munications and bridge gaps in culture and
language, as well as National Patient Safety
Goals that address specific safety concerns,
including infection prevention and medica-
tion safety.
Today, the future of health care is be-
ing shaped by the Joint Commission Cen-
ter for Transforming Healthcare as it aims
to solve health care’s most critical safety and
quality problems. The Center’s work to date
has focused on hand hygiene, hand-off com-
munications, wrong site surgery, surgical site
infections, preventing avoidable heart failure
hospitalizations, safety culture, preventing
falls with injury, sepsis, and insulin safety.
The Center’s participants – some of the na-
tion’s leading hospitals and health systems –
use a systematic approach to analyze specific
breakdowns in care and discover their un-
derlying causes to develop targeted solutions
that solve these complex problems. The Joint
Commission shares these proven effective
solutions with the more than 20,000 health
care organizations it accredits and certifies.
By testing, validating the results, and com-
municating the most effective solutions, the
Center provides health care organizations
with valuable knowledge, tested tools and
better strategies to deliver safe, quality care.
In addition to the work of the Center,
along with accreditation and certification
standards and on-site survey processes, The
Joint Commission demonstrates its commit-
ment to safety through numerous efforts, in-
cluding:
