The accreditation process seeks to help organizations identify and resolve problems and to inspire them to improve the safety and quality of care and services provided. The process focuses on systems critical to the safety and the quality of care, treatment, and services.
For this task, you will assume the role of director of accreditation. You will review and analyze the materials (e.g., records, previous audit, trends, e-mails) provided in the case study to prepare for the audit. You will need to look across all departments and examine trends and patient care issues to determine readiness.
A. Facilitate an organization’s continuous accreditation compliance process as you determine the readiness for the accreditation audit of the healthcare facility in the attached Accreditation Audit Case Study – Task 4 Artifacts by doing the following:
1. Discuss the current compliance status of the healthcare facility by including the compliance status of each of the 18 Joint Commission standard focus areas.
2. Discuss at least two trends evident in the Accreditation Audit Case Study – Task 4 Artifacts that may cause the organization to not be compliant with the Joint Commission standards for patient care.
3. Review the performance improvement standard regarding staffing in the healthcare facility’s patient care unit by doing the following:
a. Analyze the data to determine the staffing patterns of the patient care unit.
b. Develop a staffing plan to minimize the number of falls in the patient care unit.
B. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
C. Demonstrate professional communication in the content and presentation of your submission.
