Joint Commission On Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Our facilities are accredited by JCAHO.
What does that mean to you?
The Gold Standard for Quality in Health Care
What is accreditation?
Accreditation means that our outpatient facilities have volunteered to
undergo a challenging, comprehensive evaluation. We have made a
significant extra effort to review and improve the key factors that can
affect the quality and safety of your care.
Accreditation by JCAHO is considered the Gold Standard in health care.
Hospitals have been evaluated by JCAHO for more than 50 years. Our
facilities are accredited just as the hospitals in your community are
accredited.
Doctors and nurses from JCAHO personally visited our facilities to
conduct a review and looked at how well our facilities:
- Provide a safe environment for your care
- Educate you about the risks and options for diagnosis and
treatment
- Protect your rights as a patient, including your right to
confidentiality
- Evaluate your condition, before, during and after diagnosis and
treatment
- Protect you against infection
- Plan for emergency situations
The fact that our facilities have gone through this evaluation shows
CHC's extraordinary commitment to provide safe, high quality care and a
willingness to be measured against the highest standards of performance.
How does an organization become JCAHO accredited?
JCAHO accreditation is voluntary. To prepare for its review, Community
Health Centers, Inc. made a commitment to improvement, and put teams
together to look carefully at what it could do better to ensure safety
and quality of care. Next, JCAHO surveyors were invited to our
facilities for an intense on-site review. Then each of our facilities
received a report identifying its strengths, and outlining what it could
improve.
Only a small percentage of outpatient settings have gone through this
kind of evaluation. Congratulations on choosing an accredited facility
operated by Community Health Centers, Inc.
Whenever and wherever you receive health care, look for the JCAHO
"gold seal of approval".
What is JCAHO?
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is a
not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising the level of safety and
quality of care in all health care settings. Since 1951, JCAHO
accreditation has been recognized within health care as a symbol of
quality.
JCAHO's governing board includes doctors, nurses, medical directors and
consumers. JCAHO sets the standards that measure health care quality in
America and around the world. On a continuing basis, groups of doctors,
nurses, and representatives of national health care organizations meet
to review the standards for care, and make recommendations for additions
and improvements to the requirements.
How can I find out more about accreditation?
For more information on accreditation of health care organizations,
visit
www.jcaho.org
. To find other
accredited health care organizations, look for "Quality Check".
JCAHO's mission - To continuously improve the safety and quality of care
provided to the public through the provision of health care
accreditation and related services that support performance improvement
in health care.
