jcaho communication goals

JCAHO updates and expands patient safety goals on a yearly basis and posts them on its website for all interested persons to review, making this information and process transparent to all participants; ranging from institutions, to practitioners, to patients and their advocates. The below quote is taken directly from the JCAHO website.

The purpose of the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goals is to promote specific improvements in patient safety. The Goals highlight problematic areas in health care and describe evidence and expert-based solutions to these problems. Recognizing that sound system design is intrinsic to the delivery of safe, high quality health care, the Goals focus on system-wide solutions, wherever possible.

Patient safety goals for 2007

Goal 1 Improve the accuracy of patient identification.
Goal 2 Improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers

Goal 2: Improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers ...

Goal 3 Improve the safety of using medications.
Goal 7 Reduce the risk of health care-associated infections.
Goal 8 Accurately and completely reconcile medications across the continuum of care to prevent medication errors.
Goal 9 Reduce the risk of patient harm resulting from falls.
Goal 10 Reduce the risk of influenza and pneumococcal disease in institutionalized older adults.
Goal 11 Reduce the risk of surgical fires.
Goal 12 Implementation of applicable National Patient Safety Goals and associated requirements by components and practitioner sites.
Goal 13 Encourage patients’ active involvement in their own care as a patient safety strategy.
Goal 14 Prevent health care-associated pressure ulcers (decubitus ulcers).
Goal 15 The organization identifies safety risks inherent in its patient population.

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