Emergency Management in Health Care: An All -Hazards Approach
By Joint Commission.
Description
Recent disasters have made it clear that it is not enough for health care organizations to plan for individual emergency events. Instead, organizations committed to serving their communities must demonstrate the ability to respond to combinations of escalating events. With this in mind, The Joint Commission revised its emergency management standards for hospitals, critical access hospitals, and long term care organizations in 2008. Specifically, the standard that requires organizations to address emergency management was broadened into eight new standards that became effective January 1, 20...
ISBN(s)
1857431375, 9781599401850
