Lexology January 31, 2023
Starting July 1, 2023, The Joint Commission (TJC) will set health equity as a National Patient Safety Goal for certain TJC-accredited organizations and roll out a new Health Care Equity certification program to recognize TJC-accredited (and some non-TJC-accredited) hospitals and critical access hospitals that wish to demonstrate greater efforts in achieving health equity. This places health equity on par with TJC’s other National Patient Safety Goals, such as medication safety and surgical error prevention.
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TJC has emphasized the importance of improving health equity as a component of patient safety, and recently, it took efforts to emphasize that importance to its accredited organizations. Effective July 1, 2023, TJC will elevate Leadership Standard 04.03.08 (LD.04.03.08), which became effective January 1,...
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