Regulatory Agency Paper
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Regulatory Agency Paper
This paper will discuss how the Joint Commission Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) was founded. The accreditation of health care organizations across the nation is attributed to JCAHO, whose mission is to make certain that particular guidelines are adhered to as well as ensuring that organizations function in a safe manner with their employees and patients in mind.
The Joint Commissioned Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) accompanied the American College of Surgeons (ACS), which started their program in the early 1900s and maintained until 1952. ACS took responsibility for onsite inspections of health care facilities. Based on the minimum standard, few facilities actually met the requirements. In the beginning, the Joint Commissioned Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations was overseen by Arthur W. Allen, who was the chairman of the American College of Surgeons (Saulf, 2005). During 1952, the ACS transferred their Standard Program to JCAHO, and this was the conception of hospital accreditation.
In 1953, JCAHO published standards for hospital accreditation. Time passed, and in 1965, Congress passed Social Security amendments, which required hospitals to be compliant with Medicare in order to participate in the program. Six years later, in 1971, long-term care accreditation was established. The Social Security Act required that the Secretary of U.S. Department of Health and Human Services confirm the JCAHO findings (Saulf, 2005).
In 1972, law required that the Secretary evaluate JCAHO'S accreditation procedure. Additionally, Quality Healthcare Resources was developed as a nonprofit consulting subsidiary for JCAHO. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' main goal is to provide accreditation for health care organizations. A nonprofit organization, JCAHO intends to...