Tip of the week: Familiarize yourself with the new CMS-approved hospital accreditation program
HIM Connection, October 14, 2008
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Hospitals now have three options to receive accreditation to participate in Medicare and Medicaid: The Joint Commission, the American Osteopathic Association, and the newly-added Det Norske Veritas Healthcare, Inc. (DNV), according to a September 26 CMS announcement and DNV press release.
DNV’s accreditation program, the National Integrated Accreditation for Healthcare Organizations, is the first hospital accreditation program in the United States to integrate Medicare Conditions of Participation with the International Organization for Standards’ (ISO) 9001 Quality Management System. ISO enables hospitals to identify and document the clinical and administrative processes that contribute to desirable outcomes. This integration makes DNV’s accreditation program the first and only program that requires continual quality improvement.
"Now hospitals can choose to integrate proven quality systems into an annual accreditation process that is less complicated to administer," Yehuda Dror, president of DNV, said in the September 26 press release.
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