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Physical Environment Essentials for Health Care
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Title Details
2026 Ed.
© 2026 The Joint Commission
Carolyn Schierhorn, MA
ISBN-13: 978-1-63585-484-8
eISBN-13: 978-1-63585-485-5
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
Additional Details
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 management—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?
2026 Physical Environment Essentials for Health Care bundles the new streamlined Physical Environment (PE) standards for hospitals and critical access hospitals along with Environment of Care (EC), Emergency Management (EM), and Life Safety (LS) standards for all settings in one convenient reference. Equipment management (EQ) standards, which apply only to home care, are included. All elements of performance (EPs) are also included.
A simple matrix next to each requirement clearly identifies to which Joint Commission accreditation program(s) it applies.
New this year:
- New Physical Environment (PE) requirements for hospitals and critical access hospitals. These standards and EPs replace the previous EC and LS requirements to match the structure of US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Conditions of Participation
- New and revised EM requirements for assisted living communities, behavioral health care and human services organizations, and home care settings
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