New Joint Commission standards change scoring and eliminate FMEAs
Ambulatory Quality and Compliance Insider, September 1, 2008
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Surgery centers accredited by The Joint Commission will face two seismic changes come January 1, 2009. The new standards will no longer require surgery centers to conduct Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA), and the scoring process will now factor in the severity of violations.
And if noncompliance with even one standard poses an imminent risk of patient death, the surgery center could face an expedited preliminary denial of accreditation.
“They have a priority tier,” says Jan Allison, RN, director of quality and accreditation at Surgical Care Affiliates in Birmingham, AL, who serves on the ASC Advisory Task Force for The Joint Commission and took part in calls on the Standards Improvement Initiative (SII).
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