75: Bridging the Gap Between Joint Commission Accreditation and High-Quality Behavioral Health Care: Reflections on a Survey
Jun 16, 2025•33 min
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Episode description
Dr. Benjamin Brody (Weill Cornell Medicine, New York) joins Dr. Dixon and Dr. Berezin to discuss how Joint Commission accreditation can be evolved to ensure that it is aligned with best incentives to for high-quality behavioral health care.
- 00:52 Brody background
- 02:51 Inpatient work
- 03:42 The tension of inpatient psychiatric care
- 05:28 The Joint Commission
- 07:39 What the Joint Commission is doing well
- 09:04 Best practices
- 11:02 Who ordered what, when, and where
- 13:33 Including the patient as a stakeholder
- 20:23 Comprehensive treatment plans
- 22:25 What would you do if you were CEO?
- 24:34 Ensuring that the things the Joint Commission focuses on are the things that improve patients’ lives.
- 25:14 A vision for quality improvement that engages stakeholders
- 30:12 Shared decision making
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