If you haven’t had a chance to take our latest benchmarking survey on the most-cited Joint Commission standards (or equivalents, for non-Joint Commission accredited facilities) and how they ha...

Every few months we like to send out a request looking for member success stories—a new policy, a successful way of addressing a top cited standard, a new quality initiative—that a membe...

Q: What is the best way to present the findings report to my organization? ...

Hello, AHAP members. We have just launched our latest members-only benchmarking survey, and would like to invite you to participate....

The Joint Commission and the American Medical Association (AMA)-convened Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement (PCPI) held the National Summit for Overuse last week to discuss strategies ...

Hello, AHAP members. Every so often the association is approached by an organization seeking an accreditation professional and asks us to share a job posting. We’re happy to provide this servi...

It is often said that the accreditation world is growing more streamlined. With Joint Commission standards more aligned with CMS requirements than ever before, and The Joint Commission's two primary c...

There are three separate tag numbers that hospitals must review in order to understand the CMS requirements for standing orders, protocols, and order sets. ­Additionally, CMS included information ...

The threat of loss of accreditation is one that keeps survey coordinators and hospital leaders awake at night, but for most hospitals, it's more of a bogeyman than an actual threat-there are many stag...

Provider groups that claim to be accountable care organizations (ACOs) now have a way to prove it through an accreditation program offered by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA)....