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The Joint Commission National Patient Safety Goals

Beginning in 2003, the Joint Commission (TJC) established the National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs). The purpose of these Safety Goals is to promote specific improvements in patient safety.

The National Patient Safety Goals highlight problematic areas in healthcare and describe evidence and expert-based consensus as solutions to these problems. Because sound system design is intrinsic to the delivery of safe, high-quality health care, the goals generally focus on system-wide solutions, whenever possible. 

The 2010 Goals for hospital accreditation include improvements in:

  • Accurate Patient Identification
  • Effective Communication
  • Safe Medication Use
  • Reduce the Risk of Infections
  • Reconciliation of Medications Across the Continuum of Care
  • Reduce Patient Harm Resulting from Falls
  • Patients' Active Involvement in their Own Care
  • Identifying Patients At-Risk for Suicide
  • Recognition and Response to Changes in a Patient's Condition
  • Prevention of Wrong Person, Wrong Site, Wrong Procedure Surgery

Click here to review the state of readiness of Lee Memorial Health System (LMHS) for each of the 2009 & 2010 The Joint Commission (TJC) National Patient Safety Goals.

To view the full text, or for a more detailed explanation of each of the National Patient Safety Goals, visit The Joint Commission's qualitycheck.org website.

Note: The Check Marks indicate that the organization has met the requirements of each National Patient Safety Goal.

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