The Joint Commission’s 2024 patient safety goals for hospitals

Becker's Healthcare March 20, 2024
Mariah Taylor

The Joint Commission released a simplified breakdown of eight patient safety goals for hospitals in 2024.

The commission published an easy-to-read resource outlining goals for nine sectors of healthcare, including nursing facilities, surgery, hospitals and behavioral care.

Here are the eight patient safety goals for hospitals:

1. Identify patients correctly — use at least two ways to identify patients, such as name and date of birth.
2. Improve staff communication — Get the right test results to the right staff member on time.
3. Use medicines safely — Label medicines that are not labeled prior to a procedure, take extra care with patients who take medicines that thin...

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