Accreditation Information
Joint Commission
The Joint Commission Accreditation addresses all complaints that pertain to patient safety or quality of care issues within the scope of Joint Commission standards. The Joint Commission has a toll-free hotline number that gives patients, their families, caregivers, and others an opportunity to share concerns regarding quality of care issues at this accredited hospital.
The toll-free number is
1-800-994-6610, available 24 hours a day, seven days a week; staff members are available to answer calls at this number weekdays between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. central standard time.
Chest Pain Center
Livingston Regional Hospital is proud to be one of only 332 accredited chest pain centers in the United States. We are the only accredited Chest Pain Center in the Upper Cumberland Region.
We achieved our 'elite' accreditation in Dec 2006. To earn the accreditation, Livingston Regional Hospital had to first meet or exceed a wide set of stringent criteria and then allow an on-site evaluation by a review team from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. The Society of Chest Pain Centers is a patient centric non-profit international professional organization focused upon improving care for patients with acute coronary syndromes and other maladies.
The Society promotes protocol based medicine, often delivered through a Chest Pain Center model to address the diagnosis and treatment of acute coronary syndromes, acute decompensate heart failure, and to promote the adoption of process improvement science by healthcare providers.
This Accreditation qualifies our hospital's emergency department (ED) as a full-spectrum emergency cardiac care program; offering rapid diagnosis and fast track treatment before a situation worsens, often preventing a severe heart attack from occurring. This also Standardizes care for those entering with Chest Pain, thus resulting in a more efficient use of the ED, which reduces or eliminates bottle-necks in the emergency department.
College of American Pathologists
Livingston Regional Hospital's laboratory is accredited by the College of American Pathology (CAP) The College of American Pathologists is a medical society serving nearly 16,000 physician members and the laboratory community throughout the world. It is the world's largest association composed exclusively of pathologists and is widely considered the leader in laboratory quality assurance.
The CAP is an advocate for high-quality and cost-effective medical care. The nearly 16,000 pathologist members of the College of American Pathologists represent board-certified pathologists and pathologists in training worldwide. More than 6,000 laboratories are accredited by the CAP, and approximately 23,000 laboratories are enrolled in the College's proficiency testing programs.
If you have concerns regarding quality patient testing or laboratory employee safety not being addressed by the laboratory, please contact us. Your identity is confidential. Telephone
866-236-7212