Long Term Care Accreditation Analysis

Hello Dr. Ullom, majority of the long term care facilities are under staffed. There is usually one registered nurse in charge to manage a 240 bed facility, with LPN's  and nursing assistance. I feel that these patients would benefit from having one RN to every six -eight patients with a nursing assistance. Not only would this benefit the patient but the nurse as well. Patient are placed in long term care facility with a certain problem, but ends up with additional condition such as UTI, MRSA, pressure ulcers, and etc. These issues are related to poor care they receive because of unstaffing. I'm not placing blame on the LPN or nursing assistance, but with a RN and low nurse to patient ratio, they will receive better care.

Compliance 360 has identified a number of areas which it can augment healthcare organizations to improve the audit process for Joint Commission audits. The program intuitively links contractors to regulations as evidence of compliance and monitors risk trends to

A system of checks and balance must be performed to maintain efficiency and productivity that can only be achieved through regulatory and accreditation programs.

1. ECPI is an accredited institution. Who is the accrediting body, and what does this mean for you as a student?

Aronovitz, L. G. (2007). Hospital Accreditation: Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' Relationship with Its Affiliate: GAO-07-79. . U.S. Government Accountability Office.

(Facts about Long Term Care Accreditation pg.1) Facilities are surveyed every three years to make sure that standards are being followed. Facilities can lose accreditation if they fail to meet standards. Standards are to put into play to prevent risk and educated.

The roots of The Joint Commission began in the American College of Surgeons (ACS), founded in 1913, which eventually lead to voluntary onsite inspections of hospitals in 1918. In 1951, The American College of Physicians, the American Hospital Association, the American Medical Association, and the Canadian Medical Association joined forces with the ACS to create the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH). JCAH was formed as an independent, not-for-profit organization whose primary purpose was to provide voluntary accreditation for meeting established minimum quality standards. It was not until 1970 that the standards of quality were reformed to represent the highest achievable levels, instead of minimum necessary levels. In 1987, the company was renamed the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), which was shortened to today’s The Joint Commission after rebranding in 2007. (Stanberry, 2012)

“While accreditation is technically a voluntary process, through which accrediting bodies like The Joint Commission visit a facility to perform quality and process checks, it is also relied upon by state agencies in all fifty states in lieu of specific state licensure requirements (Hay, n.d.).” All organizations must meet certain standards in order to even open its doors. It is very important for healthcare organizations to be accredited by someone. The Joint Commission is the most popular and well known. Facilities that are accredited by someone other than The Joint Commission many not give the highest care which leads to more readmissions costing more. “In a retrospective analysis at 24 accredited trauma centers in the United States, accreditation was significantly associated with higher survival rates for patients presenting with six types of trauma injuries (Alkhenizan,

The purpose of accreditation is to promote improvement in the management of correctional agencies through administration of performance-based standards and expected practices. ACA has nationally recognized performance-based standards and expected practices that address the comprehensive operations for a correctional facility.

The continuum of institutional long-term care is for patients whose needs are not adequately met in a more community-based setting. It is for individuals who need more dependency. There are two ends of the continuum of institutional long-term care spectrum. On the one end there are the individuals that may only need basic personal or custodial care (Shi & Singh, 2015, p. 399). An example of personal and custodial care can include help with walking, bladder training, or just helping with bathing. On the other end there are the individuals that may need more round the clock care with nursing or specialized services along with the basic needs (Shi & Singh, 2015, p. 399).

Most of the Pros of having an accredited program appear to be well known. Accreditation is a “feather in one’s cap” because it is a “conferring of an honours degree” in the field. Accreditation states that the program has been peer evaluated and found “worthy”. Accreditation allows the program to be more visible in an honorable manner to other professionals in the same field, to allied professionals, and also to the outside “hiring” world. Programs that are accredited attract highly qualified faculty and students than programs that are not accredited. Accredited programs typically conduct routine “housecleaning”, in the form of a “Self Study”, to ensure that the program maintains its quality. The Self Study forms the core of the documentation used by evaluators from the accredited body when conducting a site visit for the purposes of

The Joint Commission is a nonprofit organization that certifies more than 18,000 health care organization and programs throughout the world. Founded in 1951, the Joint Commission provides a national symbol of quality for health care as well as analyzes each organization’s commitment to meeting high quality performance standards. The Joint commission focuses on accrediting Acute Care Hospitals, ambulatory, behavior health, long term care, health care facilities, clinical laboratories, health care networks and hospice. Numerous of accreditation organization is also taking place within the United States, but the Joint commission remains the largest The Joint commission accredits 20,000 organization” which” one third are Hospitals.

Based on the discussions, analyses and interviews, the Faculty of Business Administration (Fredericton) faces real challenges whether they should pursue third party accreditations in particular the well-known AACSB accreditation in light of the following points:

In US accreditation is provided by private organizations whereas in other countries accreditation to colleges, universities or programs is done by government organizations.

All of the accrediting organizations are overseen by an organization called CHEA, the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. CHEA ensures that all the regulations and standards are uniform throughout the agencies, and based on their definition, all the organizations should