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Health care providers may volunteer to be accredited by an external body. The Centers of Medicare and Medicaid provide an updated list of approved accrediting organizations. For this discussion, we are focusing on the acute care hospital. There are fourteen categories in The Joint Commission Standards Manual and accreditation process topics. The topics for this discussion are assigned by students’ last names. Your assigned topic is:

Life Safety (LS)

-For your assigned topic, access The Joint Commission Standards Manual and The Joint Commission’s publication The Source (attached below)
-Select two journal articles from either Google Scholar or the University of Arizona Global Campus Library Databases.
-Once you have chosen two articles related to your assigned Standard, identify, and summarize the two articles chosen. In addition, your response should reflect the TJC Standard, how it is utilized, and why it is important in health care. Include any best practice mentioned, and discuss at least one new concept that you learned from the articles.

-Initial Post: Your assignment should be at least 275 words. Cite and reference your two articles in APA format

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