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Founded in 1968 as the Accrediting Commission on Education for Health Services Administration (ACEHSA), it adopted its current name in 2004 to reflect a change in strategic direction. This came after its 2001 Orlando Forum, a meeting funded by the Kellogg Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and called to examine management and ...
Social Accountability 8000 (SA 8000) is an international standard for social accountability management systems.It was developed in 1997 by Social Accountability International, formerly the Council on Economic Priorities Accreditation Agency, by an advisory board consisting of trade unions, NGOs, civil society organizations and companies. [1]
American Accreditation Commission International (AACI) - based in the United States; CHKS Ltd is a specialist provider of healthcare accreditation programmes to UK and international healthcare providers, based in the UK and accredited to ISQua and ISO 17021:2015 standards. The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa
CAHIIM is recognized by CHEA [citation needed] as an organization that accredits associate and baccalaureate degree programs in health information management and master's degree programs in health informatics and health information management professions in the United States and Puerto Rico.
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 accreditation process includes on-site surveys in which the LCME is represented by ad-hoc teams of evaluators. Team members include basic science and clinical science educators. . [7] As of 2021, institutions must demonstrate appropriate performance in the following twelve standards to obtain or maintain accreditation: [8]
Fundamentally healthcare and hospital accreditation is about improving how care is delivered to patients and the quality of the care they receive. Accreditation has been defined as "A self-assessment and external peer assessment process used by health care organisations to accurately assess their level of performance in relation to established standards and to implement ways to continuously ...
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.