McCarrick Care Center Wins Joint Commission Accreditation

The Margaret McLoughlin McCarrick Care Center on Dellwood Lane recently became one of only six nursing care centers in the state to be accredited by the Joint Commission, the nation’s leading accrditor of health care institutions.

Joint Commission standards focus on “key patient-care processes that contribute to improved outcomes for all patients and residents in nursing facilities,” according to a release about the accreditation. “In addition, new standards have recently been added to address resident-centered care and the growing cultural transformation away from institutionalized care within the long-term-care industry. Joint Commission standards also require long-term-care facilities to collect data on performance improvements identified by leaders such as ‘the use of restraints, behavior management and treatment, quality control activities, significant medication errors, significant adverse drug reactions, and resident perception of the safety and quality of care, treatment and services.’ ”