Now It’s Called The Joint Commission?
Posted by WhiteCoat on October 23, 2007
JCAHO quietly changed its name. Now it wants to be known as the Joint Commission. Joint Commission. Joint Commission. Joint Commission.
I have to write a letter to my congressman. This name leads to confusion. How are healthcare practitioners supposed to function if they don’t know what the organization stands for?
Does it refer to a joint effort at a charitable mission? Even I know that one’s not true. A bunch of plumbers fixing plumbing joints? Maybe a gaggle of rheumatologists? Or could it be a clandestine group of medical marijuana advocates? Maaaaybe its a bunch of neer-do-wells that are jointly plotting the commission of some heinous acts. Wouldn’t want people like that looking over my shoulder.
We have to force them to change their name. Way too confusing. Might lead to phone call errors. Could be bad outcomes. In fact, there was a study in Kazakhstan clearly demonstrating health care in that country was adversely affected when their national health ministry went by a similar name.
I’m starting a petition.
Now.
The only problem is that I don’t know what the Joint Commission’s name should be changed to. Any suggestions??
UPDATE APRIL 22, 2008
See what I mean?
enrico said
Joint Commission on Masturbatory Statistical Correlation
Ramses II said
The Collaborative Committee Which Once Thought Joint Commission Was a Good and Sufficient Name.
Nurse K said
United States Department of Inanity and Clipboards
US DICs
SeaSpray said
ROTFL!
I think 1 & 3 (in that order)together would be perfect!
And hilarious!! And they need a logo or something symbolic.
Eric said
Nothing I’m coming up with is printable even in a non-family newspaper.
ndenunz said
The Dept. of Redundancy Dept.
EEJ said
Boondoggle?
Dr. Greenbbs said
I’m just going to call them assholes, because that’s what they pretty much are.
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Kate said
Was that recent? From what I’m reading, they announced that way back in Feb. I thought that was something recent and looked it up since it would have been a perfect article to bring in for my Health Admin. class…too bad it’s not.
EEJ said
Kate,
I believe he said “quietly changed it’s name”, not “recently changed it’s name”.
The whole idea of the “quietly” part is probably supposed to allude to the fact that the author just noticed it.
I try to keep up with medical news, and I didn’t know about it until this post.
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