Greetings to Our Colleagues in Behavioral Healthcare!
Holiday Greetings to our clients and colleagues across the country! As this hectic season ensues, we have a few important TJC updates for you on changes coming in the New Year.
Our first article provides information for behavioral health organizations about the new SAFER matrix that goes into effect for them in January, 2017. (It was effective for psychiatric hospitals in June 2016 and now goes into effect for all programs in the New Year.)
Our second article deals with the changes that also go into effect in January, 2017 related to submitting clarifications to TJC about findings on your survey reports.
We value your feedback on the newsletter. Please send us your comments and tell us what topics you would like to see in future issues. We look forward to hearing from you! Also, feel free to to your colleagues.
Best regards to you and yours for a Happy Holiday Season! Our newsletter will return in January 2017.
Anne Barrins President/CEO
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Tip of the Month
Looking for a summary of changes to the standards in 2016 and 2017?
Check out
Joint Commission Requirements on the TJC website.
It's a listing of all policy revisions to standards that have gone into effect since the accreditation manual was last issued - a handy reference!
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There are some significant changes to survey reports, scoring of standards, and the post-survey response process that go into effect in January 2017 for behavioral health organizations. These changes have been in effect for psychiatric hospitals since June 2016 and are being implemented in all accreditation programs (including Behavioral Health) effective January 1, 2017.
For many years, TJC has had a process in place whereby an organization can request to "clarify" a survey finding when the organization believes that it was actually in compliance with the applicable standard at the time of the survey and thus should not have been cited as noncompliant. There will continue to be a clarification process but there are some significant changes to the process that go into effect for all accreditation programs effective January 1, 2017.
Barrins & Associates is pleased to welcome two new clients:
Cottonwood Springs in Olathe, Kansas, andCarrier Clinic in Belle Mead, New Jersey. We are pleased to be working with these organizations on regulatory and accreditation compliance.
Barrins & Associates provides Joint Commission and CMS consulting services for the Behavioral Healthcare industry. Our clients include psychiatric hospitals and freestanding Behavioral Healthcare organizations. We specialize in providing Survey Preparation and Continuous Survey Readiness services for the Behavioral Healthcare industry. Barrins & Associates was founded by Anne Barrins who was a Joint Commission surveyor for 13 years.
