Physician Leader Monthly March 2024
Effective July 1, 2024, The Joint Commission approved revisions to several requirements for critical access hospitals and hospitals related to patient rights and complaint resolution. In addition, an Environment of Care standard has been revised to clarify that hospitals and CAHs need to account for the disposal of regulated medical waste in their procedures.
Revised glossary definition of “designated equivalent source”
New Sustainable Healthcare Certification Resource Center Spotlight: Stanford Health Care
Massachusetts hospitals achieve first-in-the-nation health equity distinction from The Joint Commission
The Joint Commission and National Quality Forum announce 2023 Eisenberg Awards recipients – Veterans Health Administration, BMC2, and Eduardo Salas, PhD, Rice University
Applications open for 2024 Bernard J. Tyson National Award for Excellence in Pursuit of Healthcare Equity
Newly released
Perspectives: In this issue, the Consistent Interpretation article features Joint Commission surveyors’ observations related to timely completion of inpatient histories and physicals.
March Journal: This issue features a study that precisely measures nurse and patient care assistant exposure rates to patient aggression in real time, shedding light on prevention and management measures. An accompanying editorial is written by James P. Phillips, MD, FACEP, associate professor, Emergency Medicine, and section chief and fellowship director, Disaster and Operational Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, D.C, and chair, Disaster Medicine Section, American College of Emergency Physicians.
Blogs for docs
Accelerating Efforts to Improve Equity for Veterans
Justin M. List, MD, MAR, MSc, FACP; Lauren E. Russell, MPH, MPP; and Ernest Moy, MD, MPH, write about how the Veterans Health Administration embraced The Joint Commission’s National Patient Safety Goal on health care disparities to help health care equity become deeply embedded into the VHA’s quality and patient safety framework.
In the media
To do no harm – and the most good – with AI in health care | Nature Medicine
Joint Commission enterprise President and Chief Executive Officer, Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, is a contributing author.
Protecting patient privacy: Answering the call to provide a framework for using de-identified data | Healthcare Executive
Authored by The Joint Commission’s Jonathan B. Perlin and James I. Merlino, executive vice president and chief innovation officer.
The Impact of AI and environmental sustainability on hospital care | Federation of American Hospitals (FAH)
Dr. Jonathan B. Perlin joins podcast to discuss The Joint Commission enterprise’s key priority areas.
Joint Commission CEO talks about new sustainability program for hospitals | Chief Healthcare Executive
Dr. Jonathan B. Perlin discusses why hospitals and health systems need to take environmental sustainability seriously.