Action | Requirements for examination, supervision & practice standards |
Stage | Proposed |
Comment Period | Ended on 12/28/2007 |
A shiny gold logo on
the Georgia West Central Hospital Web Page says, "Joint Commission/
National Quality Approval".
Furthermore, Moon expressed concern about the agency's Carf
certification. "Certification is all about quality control", said
Moon, "and to the public, quality control is about trust. It means you can
trust these agencies and hospitals to say what they are going to do and follow
through. Carf and the Joint Commission are selling trust, and when people stop
trusting them, they don't have a product to sell."
"While I think it would be extremely unlikely that a
lawsuit against a state agency would be successful in an individual
instance", said Whitbeck, "there is a much more tenable lawsuit
against a private organization that holds itself out as an expert in giving
opinions. It would require a pattern of misrepresentation; and if that pattern
were established, then surely you would have a sustainable lawsuit."