HCQM - Accreditation Organizations Exam Questions and Answers | Latest Updated 2025/2026 | Graded A+.

HCQM - Accreditation Organizations Exam Questions and Answers | Latest Updated 2025/2026 | Graded A+. EA Codman - ANSWER-founded the American College of Surgeons. Wanted to collect statistics to foster standardization across hospitals. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals - 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. Accreditation - ANSWER-A voluntary process that a health care institution, provider or program undergoes to demonstrate compliance with standards developed by an official agency. 1965 Darlington v Charleston Community Memorial Hospital - ANSWEREstablished institutional liability for the quality of medical care provided by physicians 1 Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program - ANSWER-Formed by the American Osteopathic Association to provide medical facilities with an objective review of their services. National Quality Forum - ANSWER-Established in 1999 with the mission to improve the quality of US Healthcare Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program - ANSWER-Created in 2003 providing consumers with healthcare quality information. Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (now the Physician Quality Reporting System) - ANSWER-In 2006 formed to allow providers to report on quality measures - although voluntary, Medicare payment adjustments will be applied beginning 2015 Advanced Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation - ANSWER-Required by the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008. Includes MRI, CT and PET. Can be performed by The American College of Radiology, the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission, or the Joint Commission.