Instead, Duncan asked his senior deputies to take the next 75 days, or roughly the amount of time until President Barack Obama delivers his last State of the Union address, to come up with additional ways to improve accreditation.
The ACCREDIT collaboration have scoped a research project with four aims: evaluate current accreditation processes; analyse the costs and benefits of accreditation; improve future accreditation via evidence and develop and apply new standards of consumer involvement in accreditation.
Through illuminating the processes by which organisational performance can be improved via accreditation mechanisms, we would be in a position to observe how the safety and quality of health care can be enhanced.
Similar to this study, findings from El-Jardali et al. (2008) on the impact of accreditation on hospitals in Lebanon showed that accreditation improved quality of care and that staff involvement helped improve quality results [ 13].
The interview tool covered the following main topics: benefits of accreditation, the effect of accreditation on staff and patient satisfaction, enabling and success factors, and challenges to the process of accreditation as well as strategies for improving implementation of accreditation.
Danny Takanishi's Continuing Medical Education Committee members maintained and enhanced SSO accreditation status, improved annual meeting evaluations instruments, and helped pilot, with the Maintenance of Certification Committee, an MOC Part 2 activity.
More than 20 US states have enacted or are considering to enact nurse staffing legislation, 14 and Magnet accreditation promoting improved work environments has increased to almost 400 (7%) of hospitals.
This paper aims to gain a better understanding of (1) the impact of accreditation on quality of care as perceived by PHC staff members and directors; (2) how accreditation affected staff and patient satisfaction; (3) the key enablers and challenges to the implementation of accreditation; and (4) the possible strategies to improve implementation of accreditation in PHC.
This paper aims to gain a better understanding of the impact of accreditation on quality of care as perceived by PHC staff members and directors; how accreditation affected staff and patient satisfaction; key enablers, challenges and strategies to improve implementation of accreditation in PHC.
In order to improve care through accreditation, it is important to establish leadership commitment and regulations to implement accreditation, allocate adequate resources, ensure the availability of data and facilitate its use [ 11].
