About St. Joseph Medical Center

Quality is our focus at SJMC

Everyone St. Joseph Medical Center, doctors, nurses and staff, focuses on quality first. Patient safety and patient satisfaction play integral roles in how we provide top-quality care.

St. Joseph Medical Center has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™ by demonstrating compliance with national standards for healthcare quality and safety.

Seeking accreditation by The Joint Commission demonstrates our commitment to our patients and the community and is another step toward achieving excellence. Meeting national standards stimulates continuous, systematic and organization-wide improvement in performance and the outcomes of care.

The Joint Commission conducted an unannounced, on-site evaluation at St. Joseph Medical Center in summer 2006. The accreditation award recognizes the dedication to complying with The Joint Commission’s state-of-the-art standards on a continuous basis.

Founded in 1951, The Joint Commission, an independent, not-for-profit organization, is the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in healthcare.

Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Public Notice.

St. Joseph Medical Center is accredited by The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The Joint Commission may conduct an announced survey of St. Joseph Medical Center at any time.

The purpose of the survey will be to evaluate the hospital’s compliance with nationally established Joint Commission standards. The survey results will be used to determine whether, and the conditions under which, accreditation should be awarded to St. Joseph Medical Center.

Joint Commission standards deal with organization quality, safety-of-care issues, and the safety of the environment in which care is provided. Anyone believing that he or she has pertinent and valid information about such matters may request a public information interview with a Joint Commission representative. Information presented at the interview will be carefully evaluated for relevance to the accreditation process. Requests for a public information interview must be made in writing and should be forwarded to the Joint Commission. The request must also indicate the nature of the information to be provided at the interview. Such requests should be addressed to:

Division of Accreditation Operations
Office of Quality Monitoring
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
One Renaissance Boulevard
Oakbrook Terrace, Il. 60181
Or Faxed to 630/792/5636
Or E-mailed to complaint@jcaho.org

The Joint Commission’s Office of Quality Monitoring will acknowledge all requests. An Account Representative will contact the individual requesting the public information interview to conduct the interview.

This notice is posted in accordance with the Joint Commission’s requirements.

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