April 6, 2023
The Joint Commission updates Health Care Equity Resource Center
Editor's Note
The Joint Commission, on April 5, announced that it had updated its Health Care Equity Accreditation Standards & Resource Center to assist organizations in meeting their healthcare equity standards.
The new resources include:
- Six new Snapshots (brief synopses of approaches used by other organizations) from Cook County Health
- Six new Soundbites (brief videos of organizations’ lessons learned) from Cook County Health
- New evidence-based interventions related to behavioral healthcare and hospital readmission rates.
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