healthcare employers - The Joint Commission

MedStaff, (MedStaff Healthcare Solutions) announces that it has achieved the Gold Seal of Approval&trade for health care staffing services from The Joint Commission.

MedStaff’s core business supplies staffing services to hospitals and healthcare facilities on a national level.

“Since its founding in 1988, MedStaff has always been focused on quality, establishing and maintaining standards beyond its time to promote patient safety. This certification bears credence to that practice. As in-depth as it is for a healthcare professional to complete MedStaff’s high standards, once they accomplish it, they know they are part of a unique team and can feel proud of it,” said Isabel Stanshine, Vice President Professional Services.

“We trust that healthcare institutions will look for the Gold Seal as evidence of high quality standards and select to partner only with those staffing services who have achieved such certification. Certification recognizes MedStaff’s dedication to supply healthcare professionals that are qualified to provide safe, high-quality care to patients. We are honored to receive the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval,” said Jeff Iannotti, Vice President Travel Division.

The Joint Commission certification program offers an independent, comprehensive evaluation of a staffing agency’s abilities to provide quality staffing services. According to Michele Sacco, MS, the Executive Director of Business Development for the Joint Commission, “The Health Care Staffing Services Certification provides a comprehensive evaluation of key functional areas such as processes for verifying the credentials and competence of health care staff. Standards also address topics such as leadership, managing human resources, performance measurement and improvement, and information management. These critical issues are important to both staffing firms and the health care organizations that rely upon those firms. Now, health care organizations have a third-party source of information to assist them in making choices among staffing firms and supports efforts to improve the quality of care delivered to their patients.”

Founded in 1951, the Joint Commission seeks to continuously improve the safety and quality of care provided to the public through the provision of health care accreditation and related services that support performance improvement in health care organizations. The Joint Commission evaluates and accredits more than 15,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States, including more than 7,800 hospitals and home care organizations, and more than 7,300 other health care organizations that provide long term care, assisted living, behavioral health care, laboratory and ambulatory care services. The Joint Commission also accredits health plans, integrated delivery networks, and other managed care entities. In addition, the Joint Commission provides certification of disease-specific care programs and primary stroke centers. An independent, not-for-profit organization, the Joint Commission is the nations’ oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care.