Question

• Research the role of regulation and accreditation, and discuss the role that each plays in holding health care professionals and organizations accountable.
• Choose 2 of the following types of health care organizations:
  • Acute care hospital
  • Nursing home
  • Home health care
  • Ambulatory care
• Discuss accreditation as it relates to those organizations.
• Describe the role that accrediting agencies have in clinical quality improvement and improving health care outcomes.

Answer 1

Acute care Hospital:
Acute care hospitals where people receive short term care for the injury, sudden illness, acute medical conditions, recovery from surgery. Acute care hospital holds leaders, researcher, health care professionals, etc. It aims as actions to provide effective interventions, health promotion, cure, prevention, rehabilitation, etc. It is a time-sensitive curative service, it treats sudden, unexpected emergency care without rapid interventions. CMS decides that hospitals should be accredited or not to receive Medicare reimbursement. It must go with the survey process. state inspection makes evaluation and certification by state survey agency. It avoids the high cost and administrative burdens. most of the acute care hospitals become accreditated. The quality of accreditation associated with evidence-based process measures. non-accredited hospitals make the worst performance. Accreditation hospitals by joint commission improve quality care and patient health outcome.
Nursing homes:
Nursing homes provide care for the person from outside the hospitals for their daily routine needs, it includes skilled care. Health care professional roles in nursing homes provide oriented care and fulfill the patient's needs. Maintaining competence to address the facility needs most of the nursing homes are accreditated by the joint commission on accreditation of health care organization. Accreditation has a relationship with a safety culture that improves patient safety and health outcomes. Accreditation provides a structure for nursing homes and improves quality care.