Joint Comission | 7 standards to improve patient-centered communications and bridge gaps in culture and language, as well as National Patient Safety Goals that address specific safety concerns, including infection prevention and medication safety. Today, the future of health care is being shaped by the Joint Commission Center 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 communications, 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 nation’s leading hospitals and health systems – use a systematic approach to analyze specific breakdowns in care and discover their underlying 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 communicating 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 commitment to safety through numerous efforts, including:
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