ABC's of Accreditation

Understanding the terminology; Choosing an accrediting organization; Proper planning prevents poor performance; Conduct a mock survey; Day of the survey; After the survey; AAAHC; AAAHC Institute; ASC; Accreditation; Accreditation Association; Accrediting; Accrediting Organizations American Association; Achieving; Administration; Affiliates; Allison. Accrediting; Allison. You; Allison. Announce; Ambulatory; Ambulatory Health Care; Ambulatory Surgery Facilities; American Association; American Society; Announce; Association; CMS; Care; Care Affiliates; Centers; Challenge; Commission; Control; Depending; Disease Control; Divide; Encourage; Engineering; Epidemiology; Facilities; Generally; HMOs; Health Administration; Health Care; Healthcare Engineering; Healthcare Organizations; IDs; Infection Control; Institute; JCAHO; Joint Commission; Make; Medicare; Ms. Allison. Accrediting; Ms. Allison. You; Ms. Allison. Announce; Ms. Russo. Games; Ms. Schilling. Consider; Ms. Schilling. Three; Ms. Schilling. You; November CMS; Nurses; Occupational Safety; Organizations; Organizations American Association; Perianethesia Nurses; Perioperative Registered Nurses; Post; Preparing; Professional; Proper; Registered Nurses; Russo. Games; Safety; Schilling. Consider; Schilling. Three; Schilling. You; Share; Society; Standards; Surgery Facilities; Surgical Care Affiliates; Surveyors; Treat; Walk; Web; acceptable; access; accredit; accreditation; accredited; accrediting; accreditor; achieve; achieving; action; actively; addition; additional; address; adequately; adjustments; administrator; administrators; advice; affect; agencies; allowing; answer; answering; applicants; application; apply; applying; arduous; areas; arrive; asked; asks; assess; assessments; assist; associations; attain; awaits; back; based; began; begin; benchmarking; big; bigger; biohazardous; block; bodies; bottom; bringing; brought; burden; business; call; called; candy; card; care; certification; challenge; change; chapters; charge; check; checking; choose; chosen; close; coach; comfortable; command; commitment; common; communicate; company; completed; compliance; comply; complying; concerns; conduct; conducting; confident; confirming; constantly; consultant; consultants; consulting; contest; continuous; contracting; control; coordinator; correct; cover; create; creating; current; day; days; decision; deemed; deer; demand; department; departments; depending; depicting; describe; descriptions; designating; designed; determine; determines; determining; develop; developed; dictate; differs; dire; direction; director; divided; division; document; dont't; due; earn; earning; earns; educate; education; effective; effectively; effort; elect; emergency; emphasis; encompass; ensure; entire; environment; equipment; establish; established; examine; exceeded; expect; expense; experience; experienced; explain; extinguishers; extra; facilities; facility; familiar; federal; feedback; feeling; final; find; fire; firm; follow; football; force; formed; founder; free; front; full; fun; fundamental; future; gain; game; generate; give; good; greater; group; guests; guidance; guidelines; headlights; heads; healthcare; helping; hesitate; hire; hold; holding; hoped; hopes; hunts; identification; identify; identifying; immediately; important; include; includes; including; increase; increases; individual; infection; information; informed; initial; inservice; insight; inspect; insurance; integrate; interested; introduce; involve; issue; job; join; journey; kind; knowledge; larger; laws; learn; learning; lengthy; level; limited; link; list; listservs; locally; locations; lot; lowest; maintain; make; making; management; manager; manual; mark; meaning; means; measure; measurement; mechanism; medical; medication; meet; meeting; meets; member; membership; mentioned; met; method; minutes; mock; month; national; nearest; network; news; non-competing; notification; noting; number; nurse; offer; offering; office-based; officer; one-shot; ongoing; online; opened; operated; operation; option; organization; organization's; organizations; organized; outpatient; overseeing; oversees; overview; packet; page; paid; participate; participating; participation; participative; path; patient; patients; peer; people; percent; perform; performance; performing; performs; person; pertain; pertaining; pharmacy; phone; pick; picture; piece; place; plan; planning; play; players; point; poor; pop; positive; post; posted; poster; practices; preparation; prepare; prepared; prepares; preparing; presents; president; prevents; priority; private; process; processes; professional; program; progress; prospective; provide; provider; providing; pulls; purposes; put; quality; quality-related; question; questions; quizzing; ramping; reaccredited; ready; real; realistic; receive; receiving; recently; reception; recognition; recruit; regulations; reimbursement; relating; relevant; request; requesting; require; requirement; research; resource; respective; responsibilities; responsibility; review; reward; rewards; risk; role; run; safe; safety; sample; scary; scavenger; scheduled; search; seek; sentiment; series; serve; service; services; serving; set; share; shared; similar; simple; site; size; small; smooth; societies; society; speak; specifically; spent; staff; standard; standards; standing; start; state; state-level; status; step; stick; strategies; strength; stretcher; studies; submitting; successfully; suggest; supposed; surgery; surgical; surprised; survey; surveyor; surveyors; surveys; takes; taking; talking; task; team; team-building; terms; terrible; test; things; thinking; time; tips; told; tools; toss; totally; trained; training; travels; treat; treating; turn; turn-off; turns; unannounced; undergo; understand; understanding; utilities; valuable; valves; verify; video; video-information; viewing; visit; wait; walk; walking; watch; ways; weeks; whiteboards; wide-range; win; work; working; write; ‘Do; ‘I; ‘it's; …