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A close read of the methodology, with a CMO who survived three on-site reviews this year.
The Joint Commission’s revised staffing review, in effect since January, replaces the long-standing nurse-hours-per-patient-day metric with a richer methodology — one that, depending on whom you ask, is either a long-overdue improvement or a way to obscure thin staffing.
We spoke to a chief medical officer at a Midwest health system who has now survived three on-site reviews under the new methodology, in three different hospitals.
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