Introduction

Grady Hospital has the privilege and the burden of being Georgia's largest public hospital. With its heavy shoulders, it serves downtown Atlanta with pride. Grady has a process for patients who are admitted for having pneumonia. This process, under JCOHA, mandates that the whole process must take less than 6 hours for the patient to receive their antibiotics. When a patient first comes their vital signs are taken, and from there nurses decide whether or not they have pneumonia. If yes, then they start the process right away. If the initial diagnoses is no, then they continue with the normal ED process. This project focuses on the current process and the importance and the consequences of not meeting their goal of at least 90% of all pneumonia patients taking less than 6 hours to receive antibiotics. Taking into account the liability and importance of HIPPA and JCOHA are helps direct what can be discussed, can be done, and how it must be done. The recommendations and findings from this project are for educational purposes only and are not to be taken into account if misdiagnoses occurs. This project is aimed at the pneumonia process and solutions to the problems that are found.

JCOHA certification is not only important to any health care organization, but also to the patients and community that organization serves. JCOHA accreditation is the goal seal of health care organizations nationwide. To become JCOHA accredited, several performance measures are done to make sure proper systems and processes are in place, and that they are efficient in serving patients. The article below shows how important JCOHA is to Grady.

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