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Prep medical staff leaders for Joint Commission surveys

Medical Staff Briefing, June 1, 2009

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Your mother always told you that if you studied a little bit every day, you wouldn’t have to cram the night before a test. But cram is just what many hospitals did in the weeks leading up to a Joint Commission survey.
In 2005, The Joint Commission (formerly JCAHO) stopped announcing its visits (many hospitals will be receiving their second unannounced survey this year). As a result, many hospitals are adopting a continuous readiness approach to Joint Commission survey preparation.
“The Joint Commission can now come as early as 18 months after your last survey or as long as three years, so we always have to be ready,” says Dana Crowell, CPMSM, director of medical staff services at Longmont (CO) United Hospital.
Because MSPs manage the nitty-gritty medical staff services department details, they are often the ones to step up when a surveyor asks a question regarding a hospital’s credentialing and privileging practices. How-ever, surveyors want to hear from leaders.

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