I am now the proud owner of the Spring 2008 Joint Commission Resources Solutions Catalog - a brochure full of all kinds of products you can purchase from the Joint Commission so that you too can learn how to be in compliance.

Ever try to find Joint Commission “standards” online? You can’t. You have to buy them. If they change their missives, guess what … you have to buy them again. If you don’t buy updates, then you risk not being in “compliance” and losing your accreditation.

So TJC (which is an unapproved abbreviation because it can be confused with “THC“) gains a financial advantage by creating frequent changes in their “standards.”

Just in case you want to learn how to pass your Joint Commission inspection, Joint Commission Resources has all kinds of information they will sell you about how to get in line with their secret directives.