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Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Carole H. Patterson
Carole H. Patterson*
Affiliation:
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois
*
Standards Development, Department of Performance Measure Development, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, One Renaissance Blvd., Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181-4813
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Abstract

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations was founded in 1951 as a private, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits hospitals and other healthcare organizations. In 1987, the JCAHO launched its Agenda for Change to create a more modem and sophisticated accreditation process to place primary emphasis on actual performance. Coincident with this new emphasis, a number of task forces were established, including two for infection control standards.

Type
Healthcare Agencies Pertinent to Infection Control
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 1995 , pp. 36 - 42
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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