Product Description
Are you challenged with ensuring that your policies and procedures (P&Ps) comply with Joint Commission standards and elements of performance? Joint Commission Resources’ 2026 PolicySource Hospital and Critical Access Hospital is a collection of sample P&Ps organized by and correlated to Joint Commission 2026 standards or elements of performance that require a written policy, plan, or set of procedures. You can download the P&Ps as Microsoft Word files to make it easy to customize them for your organization.
P&Ps in the 2026 e-book were added, removed, or revised to reflect the following recent changes to hospital and critical access hospital requirements:
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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
The e-book also includes introductory material that explains the following:
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Why P&Ps are critical and how best to develop and manage them
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When a P&P is required by The Joint Commission
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The role of P&Ps in quality improvement and safety of individuals served
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How to improve and create consistent P&Ps across departments or sites
Setting: Hospital and Critical Access Hospital
Key Audience:
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Accreditation professionals
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Leaders and administrators responsible for developing, managing, updating, and communicating P&Ps
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Performance improvement specialists
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Clinical leaders
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Infection control practitioners
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Medication safety officers
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Patient safety officers
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Human resources professionals
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Health care facility managers