JCAHO increase accreditation thresholds for 2006
Case Management Weekly, February 22, 2006
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Hospitals have a slight cushion this year in the number of requirements for improvement necessary to trigger preliminary denial of accreditation from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).
The preliminary denial threshold will increase from 13 noncompliant standards to15 for hospitals surveyed for the remainder of 2006.
The JCAHO also increased the preliminary denial threshold for critical-access hospitals from seven to eight non-compliant standards, while the threshold for conditional accreditation and critical access cutoff will remain at 10 and five, respectively.
Source: Briefings on JCAHO, HCPro, Inc
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