Multi-facility JCI accreditation launched

Joint Commission International (JCI) has launched Enterprise Accreditation, a new accreditation programme with a system level recognition awarded to eligible, multi-facility health groups outside of the United States.

The JCI states that successful completion of a rigorous accreditation process is a signal to patients that a health care organisation has undergone an exacting performance assessment and met a robust series of qualifications in patient safety and quality of care.

The organisation found from market research that there was a need for an additional level of JCI accreditation for multi-facility healthcare organisations.  Its new Enterprise Accreditation evaluates and recognises health systems that establish consistency within their system-wide governance, policies, and procedures across their facilities, which include multiple care settings.

Health systems that achieve the new JCI accreditation will, the organisation states,  strive to foster a culture of continuous improvement; promote leading practices and processes; and facilitate better coordination, communication, and alignment among their individual facilities.

JCI states that their Enterprise Accreditation will be valuable to health groups, as the extra recognition:

• Ensures all facilities within an enterprise are held to the same standards of patient care.
• Increases an enterprise’s visibility and credibility.
• Enables enterprise based benchmarking.
• Provides an additional level of formal recognition based on enterprise wide excellence and brand differentiation.
• Fosters financial and operational efficiencies by streamlining and minimising redundant survey processes.

Highlights transparency of key quality metrics and data-driven insight.

Any facility that will be grouped under JCI Enterprise Accreditation must be currently accredited by JCI and maintain that accreditation status.