AAAHC Awards its First Advanced Orthopaedic Certification
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) recently awarded the Minnesota...
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Category: AAAHC Update
AAAHC Drives 1095 Strong: Quality Every Day with Best-Practices Resources
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) offers organizations a foundation...
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AAAHC Report Outlines High Compliance Areas, Opportunities for Improvement
A new report from AAAHC analyzes data from more than 900 accreditation surveys from 2017 to identify areas of high and low compliance, providing ambulatory healthcare organizations with insight on how best to improve their performance and quality of care.
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AAAHC Offers Educational Resources on Emergency Drills
Many different types of emergencies can occur in a health care setting – and facilities need to be...
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AAAHC Creates Orthopaedic Certification for ASCs
The Accreditation Association for AAAHC has developed a orthopaedic certification program for ASCs looking to demonstrate a high quality of care and compliance with industry requirements.
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AAAHC Updates Standards Approach
AAAHC reformatted its existing standards to better demonstrate its intended meaning and simplify the self-assessment and survey processes.
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AAAHC Toolkit Addresses DISASTER PLANNING AND RISK ASSESSMENT
What does it take to create a plan that meets your facility’s needs and helps you to achieve accreditation standards?
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AAAHC Toolkit Addresses Flexible Endoscope Reprocessing
The resource is designed to help health care organizations review and assess flexible endoscope reprocessing policies and procedures to mitigate risk of associated patient infection.
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AAAHC Update: The Myth of the Perfect Score
By Angela FitzSimmons AAAHC strives to educate ambulatory health care facilities about the...
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AAAHC Update: Choosing a Consultant
Having a fresh set of eyes review what you’re doing and how you’re doing it can be a great way to...
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Opioid Stewardship and Accreditation
In August 2016, the Surgeon General sent a letter to every doctor in the United States asking them...
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Cybercrime and Healthcare IT
Cybercrime is a fact of life. We hear with increasing frequency about data breaches across industries.
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AAAHC Update: How to develop an orientation program for your survey team: Building shared understanding
Every organization has a distinct culture, but cultural norms may be subtle and are inherently unstated.
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Benchmarking (Internally and Externally) to Improve the Quality of Patient Care
By Belle Lerner, MA One of the ongoing projects of the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement is...
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