Joint Commission Notice

The Joint Commission uses information from a variety of sources to strengthen its oversight activities and improve the quality and safety of care in the nearly 15,000 health care organizations it accredits and certifies. Their Office of Quality Monitoring would like to know of any complaints regarding the quality of care at a Joint Commission-accredited health care organization. The Joint Commission encourages you to first bring your complaint to the attention of the health care organization leaders. If your issue remains unresolved, you have the right to contact the Joint Commission Office. 

Complaints can be submitted online or sent by mail, fax, or e-mail. When submitting the complaint, summarize the issues in one to two pages and include the name, street address and state of the health care organization. You may provide your name and contact information or submit your complaint anonymously. Providing your contact information does enable The Joint Commission to inform you about the actions taken in response to your complaint and also to contact you should additional information be needed. It is The Joint Commission’s policy to treat your name as confidential information and not to disclose it to any other panel. However, it may be necessary to share the complaint with the subject organization in the course of the complaint investigation. Also, The Joint Commission policy forbids accredited organizations from taking retaliatory actions against employees for having reported quality of care concerns to them.

Options:

• Submit a concern online at www.jointcommission.org
• Phone: 800-994-6610
• Fax to: 630-792-5636
• Mail to: The Joint Commission Office of Quality and Patient Safety, One Renaissance Blvd, Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181