JCAHO

 Patient Safety

 2006 Safety and Quality Fair

 Patient Care Indicators

• Heart Attack
• Heart Failure
• Pneumonia
• Infection Control
• Surgery
• Patient Safety
• Patient Satisfaction
• Safe Practices

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Public Notice

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will be conducting
an unannounced accreditation survey of
St. Mary's Regional Medical Center early
in 2006.

The purpose of the survey will be to evaluate the organization's compliance with nationally established Joint Commission standards. The survey results will be used to determine whether, and the conditions under which accreditation should be awarded the organization.

Joint Commission standards deal with organizational quality of care issues and the safety of the environment in which care is provided. Anyone believing that he or she has pertinent and valid information about such matters may request a public information interview with the Joint Commission's field representatives at the time of survey. Information presented at the interview will be carefully evaluated for relevance to the accreditation process. Requests for a public information interview must be made in writing and should be sent to the Joint Commission no

later than five working days before the survey begins. The requests must also indicate the nature of the information to be provided at the interview. Such requests should be addressed to:

Division of Accreditation Operations

Office of Quality Monitoring

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

One Renaissance Boulevard

Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181

or Faxed to: 630-792-5636

or E-mailed to: complaint@jcaho.org

The Joint Commission will acknowledge such request in writing or by telephone and will inform the organization of the request for any interview. The organization will, in turn, notify the interviewee of the date, time, and place of the meeting.

This notice is posted in accordance with the Joint Commission's requirements and may not be removed before the survey is completed.

Date Posted: December 15, 2005

The Joint Commission on Accredition of Health Care Organizations recently rated St. Mary's Heart Failure Care performance as "Above the Performance of Most JCAHO Accredited Organizations".  To see this rating for yourself, please click here: JCAHO Quality Report

To learn more about Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, please click here: JCAHO