Accreditation: Learn It, Live It, Love It

1 Reframe the relevance of accreditation.; 2 Conduct mock surveys.; 3 Review policies and procedures.; 4 Form QI committees.; 5 Keep current on credentialing.; 6 Integrate peer review into QI.; 7 Think patient safety.; A constant vigil; AAAASF's; AAAHC; AAAHC-certified Coral Desert Surgery Center; ASCs; Academy Orthopedics Ambulatory Surgery Center; Accreditation Survey? Orthopedic; Ambulatory Surgery Center; Annually; April; Aurora, Ill. If; Bennett; CMS. For; Carey-York. Annually; Center; Clarke; Clarke Orthopedic Clinic; Clarke's; Clinic; Conduct; Coral Desert Surgery Center; Dan O'Connor For; Desert Surgery Center; Determine; Development; Dr. Clarke; Educate; Flagstaff; Flagstaff Medical Center; Focus; Follow; Form QI; Forstneger. JCAHO; HIPAA; Hint: Follow; Identify; Ill. If; Integrate; Internet; JCAHO; Jaime Trevino, AAAASF's; Kendall Pointe Surgery Center; Kulczycki, JCAHO's; Limerick; Ltd. Partnership; Make; Mark Forstneger. JCAHO; Medical Center; Michael Kulczycki, JCAHO's; Mr. Summerhays. Establish; Ms. Bennett; Ms. Carey-York. Annually; November; O'Connor For; OSHA; Orthopedic Clinic; Orthopedics Ambulatory Surgery Center; Partnership; Passing Accreditation Survey? Orthopedic; Periodically; Pointe Surgery Center; Preparing; QI; QI. Incorporate; Re-credentialing; Reasons; Reframe; Review; Rush SurgiCenter Ltd. Partnership; Somnia; Somnia. - Dan O'Connor For; Summerhays; Summerhays. Establish; Surgery Center; SurgiCenter Ltd. Partnership; Surgis Medical Center; Survey? 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