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    Accreditation in Healthcare

    Alicia Symons

    PBHE501 Public Health in America

    Dr. Nicole Hare Everline

    April 7, 2024
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    Public Health accreditation is one way to ensure that quality health care is being provided by

    the facility to the community. The Public Health Accreditation Board is a non-profit organization

    devoted to providing quality and continual advancements of local, state, territorial, and tribal

    health departments. The goal of the PHAB that has been set forth by the Centers for Disease

    Control and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is to provide accredited healthcare to at least

    60% of the US population. Accreditation is based on six standard goals that are provided in

    partnership or alone by each healthcare facility. These are:

    1. advance the collective practice,


    2. be simple and reduce redundancy,
    3. minimize the burden on participating health departments,
    4. reinforce local and state health departments’ roles and demonstrate shared
    accountability,
    5. apply to all sizes and all forms of governance structure, and
    6. accord with American National Standards Institute principles. (Riley, Bender, & Lownik,

    2012)

    Accreditation is very important for various reasons. It allows for more income for the

    facilities. Medicare is more likely to pay more and retain more patients in accredited hospitals

    due to better care. This also means that the staff has higher performance standards to maintain

    and uphold when it comes to patient care. With higher performance standards this means there

    are more accurate diagnoses and faster triage and treatment of patients. This allows for shorter

    hospital stays, faster recovery times, and streamlined cross-departmental processes when it

    comes to the treatment of patients in the care of a facility (American College of Cardiology,

    2024).

    Many issues can arise with having only one governing body for accreditation. Manipulation

    of the inspectors can happen. If the inspector is not impartial to the facility that is asking for

    accreditation then they may be denied on false factors. A monopoly of one provider can happen.
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    If one provider is bigger in an area and can provide better care than a smaller facility due to

    financial backing they may be able to get accredited over the smaller facility. If there is no other

    entity to provide a check of the other many problems can arise (Nicklin, Fortune, Van

    Ostenberg, O'Connor, & McCauley, 2017).

    References

    American College of Cardiology. (2024). Benefits of accreditation. Retrieved April 2, 2024, from

    https://cvquality.acc.org/accreditation/about-accreditation/benefits-of-accreditation

    Nicklin, W., Fortune, T., Van Ostenberg, P., O'Connor, E., & McCauley, N. (2017). Leveraging the full

    value and impact of accreditation. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 29(2), 310-

    312. doi:10.1093/intqhc/mzx010

    Riley, W. J., Bender, K., & Lownik, E. (2012). Public health department accreditation implementation:

    Transforming public health department performance. American Journal of Public Health, 102(2),

    237-242. doi:10.2105/ajph.2011.300375

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