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Surgery Center Accreditation
Requirements
The Joint Commission has released its new standards
for 2002 - 2003 and the Accreditation Association
for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has new requirements
for 2002.
The Joint Commission:
SURGICAL OUTCOMES has met the criteria for inclusion in the accreditation process
and is included on the Joint Commission's list of acceptable systems.
Ambulatory surgery centers are expected to meet the Improving Organizational
Performance accreditation goal.
- This goal has 16 standards
that expect you to have solid performance
improvement design, data collection,
aggregation and analysis to back it up.
SURGICAL OUTCOMES provides solutions
to help you easily and quickly achieve
this goal — guaranteed.
- The Management of Information
accreditation goal has 12 standards that
expect you to have information management
planning, aggregate data and information,
knowledge-based information and comparative
data and information. SURGICAL OUTCOMES
was specifically developed to give you
easy and fast benchmarking data to meet
this goal — guaranteed.
SURGICAL OUTCOMES
is committed to meeting future criteria established
by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare
Organizations.
The AAAHC:
Governance standard 2B now states that the governing
body in 2002 must establish processes for the
"identification, reporting, analysis, and
prevention of adverse incidents and ensure their
consistent and effective implementation"
with minimum requirements. SURGICAL OUTCOMES helps
you collect clinical data on every patient, making
incident reporting easy and fast to meet this
standard — guaranteed.
CONTACT US: 800 E. Leigh St., Suite 206-5, Richmond,
Virginia 23219-1598
Toll Free Phone: 877.602.0156
Fax: 804-740-9401
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