JCAHO Standards Review Task Force examines rules
Goal is to clarify and eliminate redundancy
The Standards Review Task Force is making progress in its effort to find redundant and needlessly burdensome rules in Joint Commission standards. At its most recent meeting, the group reviewed the Environment of Care and Human Resources standards.
According to a Joint Commission report, the task force members suggested a new structure to help clarify and eliminate redundancy. For example, there are separate standards dealing with planning, implementing, managing, testing, and evaluating fire safety systems. The task force suggested including each aspect in one standard covering fire safety. Task force members also focused on survey process issues, indicating a need to clarify the Environment of Care standards or issue clarifications on the Joint Commission web site. That would help reduce the potential for surveyor inconsistencies, they said.
For the Human Resources chapter, the task force focused on standards concerned with assessing competency. Lack of compliance with these standards results in a large number of Type I calculations during the survey process, the Joint Commission reports. Task force members indicated a need for clarification of the competency standards to facilitate compliance and reduce the paperwork burden. In addition, the task force received a preliminary draft of the revised Performance Improvement chapter for review.
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