Product Description

The 2025 Comprehensive Certification Manual for Disease-Specific Care features everything your disease-specific care program needs to attain or retain core or advanced certification. The manual describes the certification process and includes all the certification requirements that must be met to achieve The Gold Seal of Approval^®, including the following:

• Brand-new core standards, as well as advanced standards and certification participation requirements for disease-specific care certification effective January 1, 2025
• Details about The Joint Commission’s certification process, performance improvement, sentinel events, and more
• Keys to using the manual for certification review preparedness
• “What’s New” summary of changes made since the previous edition

Standards: All 2025 core and advanced disease-specific care standards, including the following advanced disease-specific care certification programs:

• Acute Heart Attack Ready
• Acute Stroke Ready Hospital
• Chronic Kidney Disease
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• Comprehensive Heart Attack Center
• Comprehensive Stroke Center
• Heart Failure
• Inpatient Diabetes Care
• Lung Volume Reduction Surgery
• Primary Heart Attack Center
• Primary Stroke Center
• Spine Surgery 
• Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center
• Total Hip and Total Knee Replacement
• Ventricular Assist Device Destination Therapy

Key Audience: Staff responsible for certification, compliance, patient safety, performance measurement, or quality improvement in a program seeking or maintaining DSC certification

Please note: This manual is published annually. The most up-to-date standards throughout 2025 are available digitally on E-dition^®, found on your Joint Commission Connect^® extranet site or available for purchase here.

Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

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