How to Achieve JCAHO Behavioral Health Standards?

Accreditations have become a major aspect of the healthcare industry. The desire for safe and quality care is becoming universal with rising awareness about standards and consumer rights. The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) is the most prominent body that lends behavioral health businesses credibility. The Joint Commission helps you achieve the highest standards of care and workflow strategies. We have comprehensively covered what JCAHO behavioral health standards are and how Strategique Partners help you meet those standards.

Do you want your business to achieve JCAHO behavioral health standards? If so, you can explore our accreditation services here.

What is The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations?

The Joint Commission is a non-profit accrediting body that examines and certifies healthcare organizations and programs in the United States against some set standards. Like other accrediting bodies working across the globe, The Joint Commission identifies the following goals:

1. Raising the quality of care in America’s health industry
2. Inspiring businesses to meet patient-centric best practices 
3. Helping businesses adhere to the strategy of continuous improvement
4. Meeting safety standards
5. Limiting risks

It was founded in 1951 and is headquartered in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois, and currently accredits over 22,000 healthcare organizations.

Importance of JCAHO Standards for Your Addiction Center or Mental Health Business

Most behavioral health businesses in the United States aspire to or seek accreditations from The Joint Commission. Such large-scale reliance of businesses on one accrediting body is due to the following values it adds to your behavioral health business:

1. It has gained popularity as a household name in the healthcare sector 
2. Clients find it as a mark of trust and high-quality care
3. Funding sources see their accreditations as surety of high standards
4. It reflects an organization’s commitment to continuous growth
5. It gives you a competitive advantage over your competitors

 

JCAHO Standards and How Strategique Partners Help You Achieve Them

In achieving what has been mentioned above, the Joint Commission has identified some standards. These standards require great effort from businesses. This becomes difficult for established and experienced businesses and new startups. However, experts like Strategique Partners specialize in getting you ready for JCAHO accreditation standards. We have identified the key areas that fall within the ambit of JCAHO standards here:

1. Treatment Services and Patient Care

Understanding the Requirements:

A behavioral health business is primarily assessed in terms of its treatment and care services. JCAHO treatment and care standards require comprehensive initial assessments to identify each patient’s unique needs. Further, they ask you to tailor your services to the patient’s specific needs and base your practices on empirical evidence. 

How Can We Help You Achieve It?

We endow you with such best practices that coincide with the requirements of the said standard. Furthermore, while developing services and programs for you through our program development and management services, we always use the Joint Commission and CARF standards as our guidebook.

2. Customer Confidentiality and Rights

Understanding the Requirements:

The Joint Commission believes in the right to information about clients. It asks you to provide them with treatment and diagnostic information. This way, you can free yourself of future liability claims in case of untoward circumstances. Furthermore, information in behavioral healthcare is almost always sensitive. The standard asks you to follow strict guidelines on maintaining confidentiality and privacy of patient records and personal information.

How Strategique Partners Help You Protect Sensitive Information?

We prepare you to achieve high standards of confidentiality of sensitive information. Since Strategique Partners has designated itself to the startup and management of behavioral health businesses only, we realize how important it is to protect the information of clients suffering from substance use complications and mental health problems.

4. Safety and Risk Mitigation

Understanding the Requirements:

Another requirement of these standards is ensuring a safe physical environment. You can remove threats and risks only by regularly looking for potential hazards and keeping yourself prepared for emergencies. Furthermore, physical safety in a healthcare business also entails an infection prevention strategy that stops the spread of infectious diseases within the facility. 

How Can We Help You Minimize Risks?

Since it is our job to keep track of all the regulatory details of behavioral health businesses, we know how difficult it can be for a business to avert liability claims once it encounters an emergency. Therefore, we ensure that you tick all the safety standards while getting help from us for your company startup or company development.

5. Professional Training of Staff and Their Rights

Understanding the Requirements:

Standards for Staff Qualification and Education (SQE) touch upon the domains such as:

1. Staff Training
2. Provision of a Professional Environment for Work
3. Continuous Education and Training Opportunities
4. Capacity Building

This way, your staff can help you raise your standards and quality of care. 

What Strategique Partners Bring to the Table in This Regard?

We find you trained staff and help you educate them through our staffing services. We also help you provide educational resources and means to train your staff.

6. Continuous Improvement

Understanding the Requirements:

JCAHO standards focus on making businesses continuously learn and improve. It invites them to continue researching and improving the quality of care, management, and workflow. This is only possible when you track your performance by establishing metrics and assessing your performance against those metrics. As a result, this data can help you see what you can improve. Therefore, per these standards, you must analyze your performance and improve regularly.

Track Performance With Strategique Partners

Strategique Partners has specifically designed data tracking & outcome management services for behavioral health businesses to manage their performance in terms of finances, operations, and ROI on marketing and other developmental expenditures.

 

Achieve JCAHO Behavioral Health Standards with Strategique Partners

Strategique Partners is an expert in behavioral health businesses. We offer services primarily in mergers and acquisitions, operations, financial services, and digital marketing & SEO. To achieve JCAHO standards, we help you out with the following accreditation services:

• Readiness Assistance
• Documentation
• Site Visit Preparation
• Communications with the Joint Commission 
• Quality Improvement Plans. 

All these will make your journey of meeting all JCAHO standards easier, and you will benefit from that.

 

Benefits of Complying with JCAHO Standards

The benefits of complying with JCAHO standards exceed the challenges they pose in achieving them. Your goals and objectives become more manageable if you are a business that complies with JCAHO standards. Here we have enlisted the benefits:

a. Legal Compliance

In many ways, licensing requirements align with the requirements for accreditations. Various aspects that governmental regulators want in your business are the same as those wanted by accrediting agencies. Therefore, these standards often align with the licensing requirements. Strategique Partners is the only service provider which helps you see accrediting and licensing together with licensing services. 

b. Enhanced Customer Satisfaction

Getting accredited is crucial in attracting clients and winning their trust. Clients look for the list of accreditations acquired by a business before seeking their services. Your referral sources also depend on your reputation through accreditations. Our M&A consultancy services help you build networks and learn from examples of others to gain customer satisfaction.

c. Increased Financing Prospects

Accreditations help in finding financing prospects for your business. They increase the chances of funding by manifolds because they help potential financiers have the clarity that your business adheres to high standards. Our financing services help you find funding options by fully using your accreditations and advertising your adherence to best practices. 

d. Trust Building and Credibility

For any business to run productively, consumers must trust it. It is easier to become successful once your customers find you credible in the relevant field. We have learned already that JCAHO standards are all about building trust. This is a key benefit of complying with JCAHO behavioral health standards. We use your repute concerning these standards to advertise you with our digital marketing & SEO.

FAQs Regarding JCAHO Behavioral Health Standards

Here, we addressed a few of the most pertinent and common questions related to JCAHO behavioral health standards. This will help you better understand the topic. 

What Are Joint Commission Standards?

These are the standards by which an objective evaluation process is carried out. This evaluation process enables healthcare organizations to measure, assess, and improve performance. The primary target of these standards is safe and high-quality care. 

What Does JCAHO Look For?

JCAHO standards check errors in medical operations, safety concerns, staff competence, and compliance with legal requirements in the behavioral health sector. These are the things that the Joint Commission looks for while checking you for accreditation. 

How Does the Joint Commission Impact the Quality of Care?

The standards you need to meet to be accredited by the Joint Commission are so designed that they automatically raise the quality of care. For instance, it requires you to follow the best practices in the behavioral health business. With the best practices, you better the services you dispense.

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