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In 2001, the Society of Chest Pain Centers established an accreditation committee to set up an Accreditation Process of Improvement for Hospitals with Chest Pain Centers. The Accreditation Process was based on the “Eight Key Elements of a Chest Pain Center” previously published in the American Journal of Cardiology. The Eight Key Elements ...
The Society of Chest Pain Centers has granted the designation of Accredited Chest Pain Center to all six hospitals in the Abrazo Community Health Network: Abrazo Arrowhead Campus (Arrowhead Hospital), Abrazo Scottsdale Campus (Paradise Valley Hospital) (Arizona), Abrazo Central Campus (Phoenix Baptist Hospital) and Abrazo West Campus (West ...
Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) 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)
The hospital serves over 80,000 patients annually. North Shore Medical Center is Florida's first Joint Commission (JCAHO)-accredited chest pain center as well as the first thrombectomy-capable stroke center in Miami Dade. The hospital is also fully accredited by the JCAHO, the nation's oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency. [2]
Initially, HFAP provided osteopathic hospitals with accreditation ensuring osteopathic residents received appropriate training. In the mid-1960s the United States Congress decided that accredited hospitals would meet conditions set for participation, and thus automatically participated in newly established Medicare and Medicaid programs.
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.
Accreditation Canada accredited its first organization internationally in 1967 in Bermuda. [8] In 2010, Accreditation Canada International (ACI) was created to provide accreditation to hospitals, clinics, primary care centers and health systems. [9] Acreditas Global (formerly AAAHC International) has been present in Peru since 2012 and Costa ...
That same year, the hospital received accreditation from the Society of Chest Pain Centers, becoming one of 17 hospitals in Illinois receive that distinction. And in March 2010, Presence St. Mary's Hospital earned the Gold Seal of Approval from The Joint Commission for Advanced Primary Stroke Centers, for its provision of emergency stroke care.