Home Health Business Quarterly: JCAHO developing way to assess staffing effectiveness
Home Health Business Quarterly
JCAHO developing way to assess staffing effectiveness
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health care Organizations (JCAHO) is developing a new approach to assessing the effectiveness of staffing in health care organizations. The process, to be pilot tested this year, will use performance indicators to screen for potential staffing issues. The approach will emphasize the relationship between human resources — such as staff who provide health care services, including direct patient caregivers and clinical support professionals — and clinical outcomes. It will use two types of measures, one identified by JCAHO and the other self-selected by each health care organization.
Current JCAHO standards require accredited health care organizations to determine and provide the right number of qualified staff to meet patients’ needs. The determinations usually are based on internal formulae that reflect the number of patients and how sick they are.
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