

01.06.01 (49%): Laboratory staff are competent to perform their responsibilities.02.01.35 (88%): The hospital provides and maintains systems for extinguishing fires.01.03.01 (48%): The homecare accreditation organization plans the patient’s care.1 (8%): The healthcare services staffing firm confirms that a person’s qualifications are consistent with his or her assignments.


The information also helps the agency recognize trends and tailor education around challenging standards. The Joint Commission regularly collects standards compliance data to identify areas that present the greatest challenges to accredited organizations and certified programs. The latest list, published in the September issue of Perspectives, shows the standards scored most frequently as “not compliant” during Joint Commission accreditation surveys and certification reviews from January 1 through June 30, 2018. In what has become a semiannual tradition, the accreditor has released the list of standards that healthcare organizations are having the most trouble complying with. Hospitals apparently have been slow to grasp the message that certain accreditation standards need to be followed to protect patient safety, and The Joint Commission has taken note.
