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Ambulatory Surgery Center: It’s Always Time to Evaluate Quality and Performance
There is one essential plan that should be examined and implemented in the same fashion: Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI).
Pharmacy: Validating Your Shipping System
ACHC Pharmacy Accreditation Standards require an organization to ship pharmaceuticals in a manner that maintains appropriate sanitation, light, and temperature conditions.
Behavioral Health: Meeting Requirements for Your Plan of Correction
Nearly all organizations surveyed for accreditation are cited for deficiencies. To address deficiencies, an organization must develop an effective Plan of Correction (POC) and submit it to ACHC before a final accreditation status is determined. This is the final step in the accreditation survey process.
Preparing for the End of the COVID-19 PHE
On January 30, 2023, the Biden administration announced that the COVID-19 national emergency and Public Health Emergency will end on May 11, 2023. What does this mean for health care provider and supplier organizations that have come under CMS blanket waivers and enforcement discretion?
Ambulatory Surgery Center: Ensuring Anesthesia Machine Safety
When a patient must undergo a procedure that requires anesthesia, a crucial step in ensuring patient safety is to conduct a thorough check of the anesthesia machine to be certain the components are in proper working order. ACHC Standards address maintenance requirements. (article continues)
Ambulatory Surgery Center: Patient Comfort and Safety Can Be Found in the Air
Keeping patients comfortable and safe is part of high-quality health care. And that goes beyond medicines and procedures. Maintaining appropriate temperature, humidity, and airflow makes the environment comfortable and helps prevent infection. Your organization can use best practices to develop a monitoring program.
PI Program Key to Quality Improvement
An effective performance improvement (PI) program gives your behavioral health organization a solid framework to continuously drive advancements in quality of care and business efficiency.
Pharmacy: Include All Staff in Survey Preparation
Pharmacies often rely on one person to be responsible for all accreditation survey preparations. This may fall to the pharmacist in charge, owner, or designated compliance staff member. This may fall to the pharmacist in charge, owner, or designated compliance staff member.
Palliative Care: Preparing for Survey Interviews Can Ease Concerns
Your survey for ACHC Accreditation is an independent assessment that evaluates your agency’s compliance with recognized national standards for quality and safety.
Pharmacy: Do Your Part for a Successful Survey
Your survey for ACHC Pharmacy Accreditation is a collaborative effort between the Surveyor and your organization. Each is responsible for performing certain duties to collectively ensure a successful survey experience.