Hospital accreditation

have been proposed in regard to the efficiency and efficacy of their accreditation processes (CITE). For this reason, many feel that the ACCJC is not meeting their obligation to maintain institutional quality. In the following sections, I will discuss what issues specifically the ACCJC is having in terms of maintenance of institutional quality and what recommendations have been suggested for the commission to improve it’s accreditation processes. These recommendations were derived—in some…

facility. At a minimum, a hospitals or long-term care facilities must be totally knowledgeable of the current criterion, analyze current processes, guidelines and actions relative to the criterion, and be prepared to correct any areas that are up to standard compliance regulations. Any hospital or long-term care facility must be in compliance with the standards of care for a duration of at least four months before the initial survey takes place. The log-term facility or hospital should also be…

Vision~ The Joint Commission is a company that you must earn an accreditation from. Which means you have to uphold high standards of patient care in order to obtain accreditation from them. The Joint Commission helps health care organizations measure, assess and improve performance. They are there to make sure that the best medical care standards are upheld in various health care organizations. The types of organizations include hospitals, doctor’s offices, nursing homes, office-based surgery…

- Hospital Council of Northwest Ohio (HCNO) is a non-profit hospital association which is located in Toledo, Ohio. The organization provides a variety of services such as community health assessment (CHA) which, shared services for hospitals with discounted rates, disaster preparedness, evaluation of grant programs, and health programs. The organization has been doing health assessment since 1999. In order for the HCNO to provide health assessments in an efficient and timely manner it requires…

American College of Physicians, the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, and the Canadian Medical Association after Ernest Codman, M.D. set forth a initiative calling for the “end result system of hospital standardization.” With that the he helped create American College of Surgeons first along with first minimum of standards which was only 18 pages long (The Joint, 2016). Today the Joint Commission non-profit independent accreditation system which accredits and…

When people go to the hospital they are expecting to be given the best treatment with good service quality. Since patients want to feel safe in hospital environments, they need organizations to be involved in the investigation of service quality. The service quality patients are given is important because when patients attend the hospital or clinic they want to feel safe. Another thing a patient expects when he or she goes into hospitals is that he or she will be treated fairly and that he or…

Qu. 1 Select 3 Hospital closest to your affiliated school to research. For help in selecting the hospitals, visit www.jointcommission.org and search under the Quality Check Icon. Answer: Three hospitals closest to my affiliated schools are (1) All Children Hospital South Tampa, (2) Florida Hospital Tampa, and (3) The Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute. Qu. 2 Develop a critique of each of your chosen hospital’s most current surveys. • Comment on significant areas of achievement and/or…

If insurance companies are causing hospitals and physicians to turn patients away due to reduced payments, then legislators may force insurance companies and physicians/hospitals to agree on a “fair” price. An agreement among all parties would mean patients can receive proper preventative and treatment services, and physicians will be paid according to a fee…

An example of a state hospital that is still serving North Carolina residents who are mentally ill today is the Broughton Hospital. Broughton Hospital is a state hospital run by the state of North Carolina. Broughton Hospital is one of three regional psychiatric hospitals that operate as a part of the Division of State Operated Healthcare Facilities (DSOHF) within the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. They support North Carolinian residents and their families who are…

addresses a nationwide nursing shortage in hospitals. This article appeared in opinion section of the New York Times on May 27th, 2015. Robbins, the author of five New York Times bestseller books, is an investigative journalist who has spent one shadowing nurses in hospitals, in order, research the nursing profession. This is an OP-ED article from the New York Times that gives personal experience, rational reasons, and factual studies to prove that hospitals are neglecting patients and nurses…