Though they’ll stay unbiased, The Joint Fee and the Nationwide Affiliation for Healthcare High quality (NAHQ) have introduced a strategic alliance to advance healthcare high quality and security.
The organizations say the alliance stems from a shared imaginative and prescient for protected, high-quality and equitable healthcare between NAHQ, whose focus is defining high quality competencies and growing and certifying the healthcare high quality workforce, and The Joint Fee, a number one standards-setting and accrediting physique in healthcare.
As a part of the alliance, The Joint Fee mentioned it endorses and encourages healthcare organizations to undertake NAHQ’s Healthcare High quality Competency Framework, which defines the complete spectrum of labor required for a high-functioning high quality program. Nonetheless, this framework won’t be a requirement for Joint Fee accreditation or certification. It won’t be scored or determinative of survey or assessment consequence.
NAHQ provides the one accredited certification in healthcare high quality by means of its Licensed Skilled in Healthcare High quality (CPHQ) Certification. To assist the significance of competency improvement, Joint Fee and Joint Fee Worldwide (JCI) surveyors and reviewers will get hold of and preserve this certification. Moreover, The Joint Fee and NAHQ will collectively provide 25 annual scholarships to fund CPHQ attainment in underfunded organizations.
The 2 organizations say they’ll co-develop best-in-class coaching and training. The alliance will create coaching and training on essentially the most important subjects in healthcare, together with different international services. NAHQ will develop a collection of micro-credentials aligned with every of the eight domains of its Healthcare High quality Competency Framework, together with a micro-credential in Regulatory & Accreditation in collaboration with The Joint Fee.
NAHQ mentioned it acknowledges and endorses Joint Fee and JCI accreditation and certification approaches and merchandise as finest practices for assessing high quality and security inside healthcare organizations around the globe.
“Our shared missions to enhance healthcare security, high quality and fairness for all create a strong synergy enabling and affirming the very best requirements of healthcare supply,” mentioned Jonathan B. Perlin, M.D., Ph.D., president and chief government officer, The Joint Fee Enterprise, in an announcement. “The alliance creates one thing higher than the sum of its components and we’re excited to start this vital work.”
“This alliance is a large step towards our mission of adoption of a common high quality competency framework and standardized training and certification of the workforce,” added Stephanie Mercado, president and CEO of NAHQ, in an announcement. “It’s an enormous win for reaching our two organizations’ shared imaginative and prescient of higher healthcare high quality and security — and higher healthcare — for everybody.”
To additional collaboration and set up a long-term relationship, Perlin will be part of NAHQ’s board of administrators, and Mercado will be part of Joint Fee Sources’ (JCR) board of administrators, efficient Jan. 1, 2025.
In January 2024, Perlin sat down with Healthcare Innovation to debate a number of Joint Fee initiatives.
