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AAAHC Launches 1095 Learn
(Skokie, Ill.) June 3, 2019 — The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) recently launched its new learning management system (LMS), 1095 Learn. The LMS supports 1095 Strong, quality every day, a call-to-action spearheaded by AAAHC to…
AAAHC Announces Winners of the Bernard A. Kershner Innovations in Quality Improvement Award
(Skokie, Ill.) April 16, 2019 – AAAHC recently announced the 2018-19 winners of The Bernard A. Kershner Awards, honoring CSA Surgical Center, LLC in Missouri and ForwardDental in Wisconsin for their exemplary work in quality improvement studies. The…
AAAHC Celebrates 40 Years of Improving Health Care Quality Through Accreditation
(Skokie, Ill.) March 18, 2019 — The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) is celebrating its 40th anniversary as the leader in ambulatory health care accreditation. Over the past four decades, AAAHC has driven quality improvement in…
CMS renews AAAHC deeming status
Volume 6 | Issue 1 | Winter 2019 CMS renews AAAHC deeming status In December, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) approved AAAHC as a national accreditation organization for ASCs that request participation in the Medicare…
AAAHC Report Outlines High Compliance Areas and Opportunities for Improvement
(Skokie, Ill.) November 13, 2018 – A new report from AAAHC analyzes data from more than 900 accreditation surveys from 2017 to identify areas of high and low compliance, providing ambulatory healthcare organizations with insight on how best to improve…
Add value to your quality improvement efforts
Volume 5 | Issue 2 | Summer/Fall 2018 Add value to your quality improvement efforts Benchmarking studies can be a valuable tool for improving the quality of care provided at your facility. There are many opportunities to successfully…
Kershner award winners announced
Volume 5 | Issue 1 | Spring 2018 Kershner award winners announced In November of 2017, the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement announced the 6 finalists (3 from Surgical/Procedural and 3 from Primary Care) for the 2017-2018 Bernard…
Introducing Noel M. Adachi
Volume 4 | Issue 4 | Fall 2017 Introducing Noel M. Adachi Noel M. Adachi is passionate about improving patient outcomes. Over the years she has demonstrated that accreditation programs improve care and patient outcomes when Standards and…
Tanana Chiefs Conference
Volume 4 | Issue 3 | Summer 2017 Tanana Chiefs Conference For over 10,000 years, an indigenous, nomadic people have hunted, trapped, and fished the 45 million acres—roughly 31% of Alaska—that the Tanana Chiefs Conference (TCC) now serves.…