HCQM - Accreditation Organizations exam questions and verified correct answers 2024

Accreditation - correct answer A voluntary process that a health care institution, provider or program undergoes to demonstrate compliance with standards developed by an official agency. EA Codman - correct answer founded the American College of Surgeons. Wanted to collect statistics to foster standardization across hospitals. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals - correct answer In 1953, the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Physicians, the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association and the Canadian Medical Association formed this to handle hospital accreditation. Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program - correct answer Formed by the American Osteopathic Association to provide medical facilities with an objective review of their services. 1965 Darlington v Charleston Community Memorial Hospital - correct answer Established institutional liability for the quality of medical care provided by physicians National Quality Forum - correct answer Established in 1999 with the mission to improve the quality of US Healthcare Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program - correct answer Created in 2003 providing consumers with healthcare quality information. Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (now the Physician Quality Reporting System) - correct answer In 2006 formed to allow providers to report on quality measures - although voluntary, Medicare payment adjustments will be applied beginning 2015 Deemed authority - correct answer If a national accreditation organization has, and enforces, standards that meet or exceed the federal conditions of participation, CMS may grant the accrediting organization deemed authority and deem each accredited health care organization as meeting the CMS certification