02-12-2008, 11:45 AM
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is the world's leading health care standards and accrediting body. JCAHO accreditation is not a paid endorsement, paid advertising, or paid anything. A JCAHO accreditation can be more rigorous than any State or Medicare inspection. I've known healthcare organizations on the mainland to fire senior executives if they have their accreditation pulled or suspended by JCAHO. Don't know how all this related to Hawaii healthcare but as for JCAHO, it's nothing to be downplayed.