Published
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0779.pdf
Joint Commission and CMS are intertwined. More so them most nurses realize. For example clinical measures are sent quarterly to CMS and Joint Commission to monitor quality. Failure to submit these measures equal a 2% loss of Medicare and Medcaid funding. Medcaid follows CMS protocols.
suanna
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We are going to get a new president in the US one way or the other. Both parties have talked about the need to overhaul the health care system. Does anyone else think a letter writing campaign from staff nurses would get them to look at the JCAHO and the millions of dollars wasted trying to satisfy the endless regulations that organization keeps comming up with. I'm not saying hospitals shouldn't be held to a standard but the JCAHO seems to get farther out in left field every year. I bet the savings of health care resources from not having to chase our tails with paperwork constantly would more than save enough money to provide for health care for America's uninsured!