Joint Commission Resources Inc.

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Oct 24, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$55,778,983

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Jcr serves as the official publisher for the accreditation manuals and related books, periodicals, and electronic products of the joint commission. Jcr also publishes a line of books on standards compliance, patient safety, and health care quality. Jcr has approximately 140 titles on its backlist and publishes approximately 45 new titles per year as well as 48 issues of periodicals. Jcr also offers an online multimedia portal-jcaccess-that features all hospital accreditation requirements as well as compliance strategies, case studies, tools, staff education, videos, webinars, and more. In addition, jcr offers cmsaccesstm, an all-in-one portal to the latest information about medicare certification, requirements, and survey methodology for both accredited and non-accredited hospitals. It provides customers a way to connect to cms guidelines, transmittals, interactive forms, personal e-mail, alerts, publications, survey processes, and more. Cmsaccess also provides access to useful tools, tips, timelines, and forms for maintaining continuous compliance with medicare conditions of participation (cops).

Activity 3

Jcr offers a full spectrum of other programs to accomplish its goals. Jcr provides expertise through education, continuous service readiness, and contract evaluation services on accreditation, performance improvement, patient safety, infection control, medication management, environment of care, and many other issues organizations face in their efforts to improve safety and quality in the challenging health care environment. The continuous service readiness® (csr) program is a subscription service that provides ongoing guidance with a dedicated consultant to help organizations achieve and maintain joint commission accreditation and/or disease-specific care certification. Csr® services are available to hospitals, behavioral health care, home care, ambulatory care, primary care medical home, long term care and laboratories. More than 800 organizations are enrolled in the csr® program. Jcr offers nearly 50 seminars and customized education programs a year on a variety of different topics. Covering a range of standards compliance and patient safety subjects, seminars are held for the different health care settings and disciplines. Jcr also hosts an annual emergency preparedness conference. Monthly satellite broadcasts are offered as part of the joint commission resources quality and safety network, a subscription satellite broadcast service that provides current information on the joint commission standards, survey process, and strategies for compliance. Jcr also offers approximately 50 webinars annually on standards compliance, infection prevention and control, and health care quality and safety. Jcr also offers a professional certification program for accreditation professionals-certified joint commission professional (cjcp)-that features a rigorous online examination as well as continuing education requirements to achieve and maintain certification. Jcr offers most of its educational offerings with continuing education (ce) credits from ancc, accme, and ache.

Filer

EIN

36-3521721