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Community Health Accreditation Program(CHAP) DNV GL Healthcare; Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy (FACT) [4] Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) [5] Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) Healthcare Quality Association on Accreditation (HQAA) Institute for Medical Quality (IMQ) Joint Commission (TJC)
Ministries of health in several sub-Saharan African countries, including Zambia, Uganda, and South African, were reported to have begun planning health system reform including hospital accreditation before 2002. However, most hospitals in Africa are administered by local health ministries or missionary organizations without accreditation programs.
Independent organisations can apply to the commission to be an approved accrediting agency, and complete accreditations when engaged by health services as required. [7] Services must receive initial accreditation to begin services, and receive full accreditation within 18 months. [8] They will then be reaccredited at least once every three ...
St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Brighton, MA, which served as Steward's flagship hospital until it was sold in 2024 [19]. Steward Health Care was founded in 2010, when Caritas Christi Health Care was sold to New York private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management, with Caritas CEO and former Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center heart surgeon Ralph de la Torre continuing as CEO of the new ...
Steward Health Care, the operator of the third largest hospital system in Massachusetts, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Texas, seeking the legal protection to restructure its debt while ...
Effective January 1, 2020, the Joint Commission antimicrobial stewardship requirements were expanded to outpatient health care organizations as well. [21] In 2018, a survey of AMS programs in the US showed each 0.50 increase in pharmacist and physician full-time equivalent support predicted a roughly 1.5-fold increase in the programs effectiveness.
This list of national public health agencies includes national level organizations responsible for public health, infectious disease control, and epidemiology. Many are represented in the International Association of National Public Health Institutes and discussed at national public health institutes .
President Bush launched the Health Centers Initiative to significantly increase access to primary health care services in 1,200 communities through new or expanded health center sites. Between 2001 and 2006, the number of patients treated at health centers increased by over 4.7 million, representing a nearly 50 percent increase in just five years.