Product Description

Are you a facility manager or an emergency management coordinator who needs Joint Commission standards that apply only to the physical environment, environment of care, life safety, or emergency management—not the whole Comprehensive Accreditation Manual? Or do you work in a health care system or as a vendor and need to understand requirements and align compliance efforts across various sites or settings of care?

2026 Physical Environment Essentials for Health Carebundles the new streamlined Physical Environment (PE) standards for hospitals and critical access hospitals along with Environment of Care (EC), Emergency Management (EM), and Life Safety (LS) standards for all settings in one convenient reference. Equipment management (EQ) standards, which apply only to home care, are included. All elements of performance (EPs) are also included.

A simple matrix next to each requirement clearly identifies to which Joint Commission accreditation program(s) it applies. Click on "Download Sample Pages" above for an inside look at the easy-to-use matrix.

New this year:

• New Physical Environment (PE) requirements for hospitals and critical access hospitals. These standards and EPs replace the previous EC and LS requirements to match the structure of US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Conditions of Participation
• New and revised EM requirements for assisted living communities, behavioral health care and human services organizations, and home care settings

Settings: All Joint Commission accreditation programs, including ambulatory care, assisted living community, behavioral health care and human services, critical access hospital, home care, hospital, laboratory, nursing care center, office-based surgery, rural health clinic, and telehealth

Key Audience:

• Facility managers
• Emergency managers
• Life safety experts
• Staff engineers
• Accreditation and regulatory staff
• Risk managers
• Health care facilities consultants and vendors

*Life Safety Code is a registered trademark of the National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA.

Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

Payment Options

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Or contact Product Support at 888-527-9255, option 5 (+1 630 268 2990 outside the US) or via email at orders@jcrinc.com to have a proforma invoice created and emailed directly to you.

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