Health Care Regulatory Agency

Running Head : Health Care Accreditation by the Joint Commission

Health Care Accreditation by the Joint Commission

Name

Course

Instructor

University

Date Health Care Accreditation by the Joint Commission

Current success and progress in the health care industry owes a lot to the work of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health organizations (JCAHO ) now the Joint Commission . Heath care quality and safety have become the basis for evaluating the competence of health care establishments as well as the compliance with international health care standards . The Joint Commission

is a non-profit organization established in 1951 in the United States with the main objective of evaluating and accrediting health care organizations . To date , close to 16 ,000 organizations in the health care industry in the United States have been accredited by the Joint Commission . Of the 16 ,000 , about 3 ,900 are home care establishments , 4 ,400 are hospitals while more than 7 ,000 include other health care organizations providing related services such as ambulatory care , laboratory , long term services and behavioral health care (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare , 2010 . Moreover the commission is involved in the evaluation and accreditation of networks for health care and health plans . The affairs of the commission are governed by a number of representatives drawn from the American College of Surgeons , the American Hospital association , the American College of Physicians , the American Dental Association , the American Medical Association , six public members , the president of the Joint Commission (JC ) and a nursing representative (Joint Commission Resources...