**WHAT’S NEW for February 2014

• Article of the Month

• Not Documented, Not Done: How to keep track of what you need to do for Joint Commission standards compliance—and prove that you’ve done it[®] EC News, February 2014, Vol 17, #2, Pg 8 [Recommended for: EOC, JCSC] – There are so many Elements of Performance and documentation requirements in the EC, EM and LS chapters that it can be hard to keep up with them all. In this article TJC suggests a solution…an EC Frequency Documentation Checklist…that will better coordinate your compliance effort and help satisfy surveyor queries. Read the article and adapt the sample checklist to your facility.
  
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**RECOMMENDED READING:

1. PR: High-level Disinfection and Sterilization Ftxt [REF: IC]
2. TS: Improving Patient and Family Health Literacy Ftxt [REF: LDR, PtAd]
3. TS: Effectively Manage the Collection of Health Information Ftxt [Pearl: IM, MD, RN]
4. TS: Tracer 101: Screenings and Assessments in BHC Ftxt [Pearl: BHC, JCSC, MD, RN]
   
5. EC: How two hospitals used social media (in a disaster) Ftxt [REF: EOC, JCSC, LDR, IT]
6. EC: Clarifying Medical Gas Cylinder storage requirements Ftxt [REF: EOC]
7. EC: Not Documented, Not Done: How to keep track… Ftxt [REF: EOC, E&M, JCSC, SFT]

**USEFUL LINKS & DOWNLOADS:

• 2014 TJC Survey Activity Guide
• Ask Me 3 – a Pt education program to improve Health Literacy by asking just three questions
• Understanding the CMS Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Program (QAPI)… Ftxt [REF: CMS, PI, RNx, StEd]
  
• QAPI At a Glance
• CJCP Sample Questions: Focus on the NPSG Chapter Ftxt [Pearl: CJCP, JCSC]
• Latest TJC Blogs: Physician Leader Monthly – Leadership Blog
  

**SupporTips

• S-Tip#14: Recommended for You and Who Else? – Did you know that a JCSC is a Joint Commission Survey Coordinator (probably you)? Did you know that ‘LDR‘ stands for Leadership and ‘MD‘ stands for Medical Director or Medical staff? Each of the recommended readings listed above is followed by highlighted abbreviations that indicate our suggestion for the reader that would benefit most from the article. We do this to help you as the JCSC prioritize your reading time. We also do it so that you can have confidence in passing along the recommended readings to appropriate colleagues without having to read each one yourself. At the bottom of the newsletter is a key to the abbreviations.

** Key: Ftxt=Full Text Link PR=Perspectives (JcE), TS=The Source (JcS), EC=EC News (JcE), CM=CMS, JO=JC Online, TP=JC Topics **[More Abbreviations] **