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Archive > November, 2003 Vol. IV, No. 11

Battling Back from an Accreditation Denial

How one hospital lost its JCAHO accreditation - and plans to regain it.

Bill Meltzer, Senior Associate Editor

It takes a lot to deny a facility's accreditation outright: Only after a facility demonstrates inability or unwillingness to correct non-compliant areas of its practice within a reasonable period of time will the major accreditation bodies - JCAHO, AAAHC or AAAASF - censure the facility by refusing accreditation.

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