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Center for Improvement in Healthcare Quality (CIHQ) [3] 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 ...
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) - based in the United States [51] American Accreditation Commission International (AACI) - based in the United States; Community Health Accreditation Program. [52] Det Norske Veritas (DNV) Global Healthcare Accreditation (GHA) [53] Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP) [54]
Hospital accreditation has been defined as “A self-assessment and external peer assessment process used by health care organizations to accurately assess their level of performance in relation to established standards and to implement ways to continuously improve”. [1]
Through international accreditation, consultation, publications, and education programs, JCI extends The Joint Commission's mission worldwide by helping to improve the quality of patient care; assisting international health care organizations, public health agencies, health ministries, and others in evaluating, improving, and demonstrating the ...
HFAP provides accreditation programs for hospitals, clinical laboratories, ambulatory surgical centers, office based surgery, and critical access hospitals. HFAP also accredits mental health and physical rehabilitation facilities and provides certification for primary stroke centers. [2]
In 1965, CHAP was the first to recognize the need and value for accreditation in community-based care. The organization was created as a joint venture between the American Public Health Association and the National League for Nursing (NLN). CHAP became a separately incorporated, non-profit subsidiary of the NLN in 1988, under the CHAP name.
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is an independent 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in the United States that works to improve health care quality through the administration of evidence-based standards, measures, programs, and accreditation. The National Committee for Quality Assurance operates on a formula of measure ...
The training and certification were sponsored by UMDNJ's Career Training and Advancement Center (CTAC), coordinated by the Department of Human Resources and grant-funded by the Bank of America. [10] CTAC and nursing leadership at the University Hospital worked closely with the National Healthcareer Association to develop a comprehensive program ...