Long Term Care Accreditation

• The organization is located outside the United States and its territories.
• The organization is currently in operation as a health care provider organization in the country, licensed (if required), and, at a minimum, does the following:
• Identifies the services it provides, indicating which care, treatment, and/or services it provides directly, under contract, or through some other arrangement.
• Meets parameters for the minimum number of residents/volume of services required for organizations seeking JCI accreditation; that is, a minimum of 10 residents served and 5 residents active at the time of survey.
• Provides long-term care services. Such services encompass any health care services provided by health care professionals (physician, registered nurse, therapist, and the like) to a long-term care facility and may include activities of daily living, rehabilitation services, occupational therapy, medication management, intravenous infusion therapy, ventilator management, and provision of medical equipment.
• Provides care that may be episodic or ongoing in nature.
• The organization assumes, or is willing to assume, responsibility for improving the quality of its care and services.
• The organization provides services addressed by JCI standards.
• The long-term care organization is in full operation, admitting and discharging a volume of residents that will permit the complete evaluation of the implementation and sustained compliance with all current JCI accreditation standards for long-term care.
• The long-term care organization meets the conditions described in the “Accreditation Participation Requirements” (APR) chapter.

Note: If in its reasonable discretion, JCI determines that the applicant does not meet the eligibility criteria for the long-term care accreditation program, JCI will not accept or process the electronic application (E-App) and will notify the long-term care organization of its decision.