Joint Commission and SGS form alliance for ISO certification
The Joint Commission and SGS Group announced last month that they are joining forces to offer hospitals and critical access hospitals in the United States the option of pursuing both accreditation and certification to various ISO and industry best practice standards beginning in early 2012. This program combines the Joint Commission's modern health care quality and safety standards, survey process and accountability performance measures with SGS management system audits, including certification to the ISO 9001 quality management system standards.
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