2025 Environment of Care® Essentials for Health Care

Are you a facility manager or an emergency management coordinator who needs Joint Commission standards that apply only to the physical environment, environment of care, life safety, or emergency planning—not the whole Comprehensive Accreditation Manual? Or, do you work in a health care system or as a vendor and need to understand requirements and align compliance efforts across various sites or settings of care?2025 Environment of Care® Essentials for Health Care bundles the Environment of Care (EC), Emergency Management (EM), and Life Safety (LS) standards and elements of performance (EPs) for all settings in one convenient reference. Equipment management (EQ) standards, which apply only to home care, are also included. A simple matrix next to each requirement clearly identifies to which Joint Commission accreditation program(s) it applies. Click on "Download Sample Pages" above for an inside look at the easy-to-use matrix.New for the 2025 book: New and revised EM requirements for ambulatory care centers, office-based surgery practices, laboratories, and nursing care centersSettings: All Joint Commission accreditation programs, including ambulatory care, assisted living community, behavioral health care and human services, critical access hospital, home care, hospital, laboratory, nursing care center, and office-based surgeryKey Audience: Facility managers Emergency managers Life safety experts Staff engineers Accreditation and regulatory staff Risk managers Health care facilities consultants and vendors*Life Safety Code is a registered trademark of the National Fire Protection Association, Quincy, MA. Read more