The Joint Commission’s (TJC) Board of Commissioners has approved the Task Force revision of MS.01.01.01 (formerly MS.1.20) for implementation.
MS.01.01.01 will be effective beginning March 31, 2011, and TJC will be releasing educational documents in the next few days to help facilities understand the standard and how to implement it. There are also plans to hold an audio-conference in April, which will allow participants to ask TJC staff specific implementation questions.
Feedback from TJC’s field review, which ended earlier this year, revealed that sixty-six percent of respondents thought that the Task Force’s revision was a positive improvement, four percent thought it was worse, and the remaining respondents wanted more clarification.
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