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AAAHC Announces Virtual Achieving Accreditation Conference in December
(Skokie, Ill.) November 12, 2020 — The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) welcomes organizations to attend its second virtual Achieving Accreditation conference of the year. Taking place December 7-10, the interactive, immersive conference is designed to…
AAAHC Announces New Board Officers and Directors
(Skokie, Ill.) November 10, 2020 – The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) announces newly named officers and the results for three elected positions to its Board of Directors for 2021. The new leadership brings extensive experience…
Kershner Awards Announced at September Achieving Accreditation
Volume 7 | Issue 3 | Fall 2020 Kershner Awards Announced at September Achieving Accreditation Since 2004, an expert panel of the AAAHC Institute has recognized examples of outstanding quality improvement (QI) methodology and outcomes with the Bernard…
AAAHC Receives Accreditation from International Society (ISQua)
(Skokie, Ill.) October 21, 2020 – The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) was recently awarded a 4-year accreditation of its health care Standards from the International Society for Quality in Health Care’s (ISQua) External Evaluation Association…
CMS-1736-P RIN 0938-AU12
CMS-1736-P / RIN 0938-AU12 Agency/Dept: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. (AAAHC) greatly appreciates the opportunity to submit comment to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding the…
AAAHC Announces Kershner Winners
(Skokie, Ill.) Sept. 17, 2020 – Today, AAAHC announces the 2019-2020 winners of The Bernard A. Kershner Award. Presented at the inaugural virtual Achieving Accreditation conference, the prestigious Bernard A. Kershner Innovations in Quality Improvement Award recognizes AAAHC-accredited…
COVID-19 Risk Prevention Guidelines ‘Identify, Isolate, and Inform’, Part 1
Volume 7 | Issue 2 | Summer/Fall 2020 COVID-19 Risk Prevention Guidelines Recommend Health Care Facilities ‘Identify, Isolate, and Inform’ During Resumption of Operations, Part 1 The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic created new burdens and unprecedented challenges…
New AAAHC Accreditation Handbook Enhances Medicare Deemed Status Standards
(Skokie, Ill.) Sept. 1, 2020 – With its mission to improve health care quality through accreditation, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) has published version 41 of the Accreditation Handbook for Medicare Deemed Status. Released today,…
AAAHC Drives 1095 Strong, Quality Every Day Philosophy with Inaugural Virtual Conference
(Skokie, Ill.) August 18, 2020 — In September, the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) transitions its Achieving Accreditation conference to a virtual environment. The immersive educational seminar takes place September 14-17 and is designed to help…
AAAHC Enhances Standards in New Accreditation Handbook
(Skokie, Ill.) July 1, 2020 – The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) is moving forward with enhanced Standards in version 41 of its Accreditation Handbook for Ambulatory Health Care. For more than 40 years, AAAHC has…