JOINT COMMISSION EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STANDARDS FOR 2008:

Using an All-Hazards Approach in Behavioral Health

A two-hour training on compact disc...and resource materials!

As of January 1, 2008, The Joint Commission (JC) will require compliance with updated “Emergency Management Standards,” which take a more all-hazards view of emergency management. The JC has concluded that organizations need to plan for combinations of escalating events -- rather than a single emergency. The revised standards emphasize a scalable approach to help organizations manage the variety, intensity, and duration of the disasters that affect a single organization, multiple organizations, or an entire community. This two-hour training on compact disc is intended to help psychiatric and addiction treatment settings adapt The Joint Commission standards to behavioral health. Faculty includes leaders from The Joint Commission's Standards Interpretation Group as well as behavioral health providers who have lived through emergency situations in their facilities.

• Compact disc order form (.pdf)
• Faculty biographies
• Objectives
• Resources and required reading:
  • Required reading: Joint Commission Perspectives (APPROVED: Revisions to Emergency Management Standards for Critical Access Hospitals, Hospitals, and Long-Term Care)
  • Joint Commission information on surge hospitals
  • PowerPoint presentation by John Gervais of The Joint Commission

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