Joint Comission | 3 tinuously improve health care for the public, in collaboration with other stakeholders, by evaluating health care organizations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective care of the highest quality and value. This mission supports a vision that all people always experience the safest, highest quality, best-value health care across all health care settings. Today’s Joint Commission evolved from the “end result system of hospital standardization” proposed by Ernest Codman, M.D. Dr. Codman’s system of tracking the effectiveness of hospital treatments and using that information to improve patient care led his colleague Franklin Martin, M.D. to establish the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in 1913. The “end result” system became the ACS stated objective and was used in its Hospital Standardization Program. The Hospital Standardization Program
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