Healthcare Accreditation

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Healthcare Accreditation
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HEALTHCARE ACCREDITATION 2
Healthcare accreditation
INTRODUCTION
The organization of my choice is the hospital. Hospitals are required to be licensed and
accredited for them to practice on a daily basis. Accreditation can be defined as process of
review which allows healthcare facilities to meet certain regulatory needs that are established by
an accreditation organization (Aghaei Hashjin et al., 2015). Licensing on the other hand refers to
an agreement to perform a certain function for a specified period of time. Licensing and
accreditation are mandatory and there are different requirement for a hospital to be licensed and
accredited.
Accreditation organization for hospitals in USA
There are several organizations in the USA that provide accreditation to the hospitals.
They include the Accreditation commission for Health Care and the Accreditation Association
for Ambulatory Health Care .The purpose of accreditation is generally to allow the hospital reach
certain standards for it to operate. For example it should have a certain number of staff so that it
is allowed to offer services to consumers. Accreditation supports hospitals in that it motivates
them to reach the certain standards where they would be allowed to operate or carry out their
functions.
Importance of accreditation
Accreditation is important to both the organization, the patient, the community and the
general healthcare. Since the aim of accreditation is to ensure that the hospital are at certain
standards of operation, it enables the patients and the community to get quality or standardized
services. It also prevent the public from harm due to the low standards of operation.