6 | Joint Comission IMPROVING PATIENT SAFETY AND HEALTH CARE QUALITY One of the greatest challenges facing health care is providing reliably safe, high-quality 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 accredited 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
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