Product Description
The 2026 Hospital Accreditation Standards provides you with direct access to key information your hospital needs to maintain continuous standards compliance and improve operations. New for this year:
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Revised standards that use language drawn from federal regulation to more directly identify alignment with US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Conditions of Participation (CoPs)—resulting in a reduction of more than 700 EPs
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A new “National Performance Goals” (NPG) chapter that consolidates all remaining requirements into salient, measurable topics with defined goals
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A new “Physical Environment” (PE) chapter that replaces the “Environment of Care” (EC) and “Life Safety” (LS) chapters to match the structure of the CoPs
It does NOT INCLUDE the following chapters from the Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals:
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The Accreditation Process
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Sentinel Event Policy
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Required Written Documentation
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Other accreditation process information chapters
Setting: Organizations accredited under the Hospital Accreditation Program, including general, acute psychiatric, pediatric, medical/surgical specialty, long-term acute care, and rehabilitation hospitals
Key Audience: Staff responsible for accreditation, compliance, patient safety, or quality improvement
If you need a manual with Joint Commission accreditation process information, get the 2026 Comprehensive Accreditation Manual for Hospitals, available as either a binder or an e-book.