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December 15, 2025

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AHAP is happy to announce that its next Working Group Call will take place on Thursday, October 21 at 3 pm EST (2 pm Central, 12 pm Pacific). Further details to come this week, so stay tuned!

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Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Accrediting organizations suspend most survey activities to focus on COVID-19

March 18, 2020

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Infection Control

If you are expecting a survey from your accreditation organization (AO) in the upcoming weeks and months, check in with your liaison. Some AOs are suspending most or all survey activities as COVID-19 ...

Inside Accreditation & Quality

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Verma raps accrediting organizations’ ‘glaring conflict of interest’

December 15, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma took a swipe at accrediting organizations, noting that when they accept consulting fees from the hospitals they grade it creates ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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The Joint Commission seeks to reduce maternal deaths

March 24, 2020

Patient Safety, Policies and Procedures, Accreditation & Survey Preparation

The Joint Commission (TJC) has issued guidance and an alert to hospitals to help prevent what it calls a shocking number of women who die from typically preventable pregnancy complications. The acc...

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You be the surveyor, April 2020

March 24, 2020

Accreditation & Survey Preparation

What deficiencies would you cite and why? And how would you correct them? You be the surveyor. The following information was taken from a CMS Form-2567 “Statement of Deficiencies” posted online ...

Patient Safety Monitor Journal

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Coronavirus and preparing for the worst

December 15, 2025

Accreditation & Survey Preparation, Natural & Manmade Disasters, Infection Control

Preparing for a worldwide pandemic, especially when you don’t know how fast it will spread or how serious its consequences will be, is one of the hardest things that healthcare workers do. ...