Textbook of Urgent Care Management: Chapter 11, Urgent Care Accreditation

By Michael Kulczycki, Laurel Stoimenoff and John Shufeldt

The Textbook of Urgent Care Management is now offering individual chapters for sale. The full book, provides an expert business consulting guide to potential or existing urgent care clinic owners, managers & operators as well as investors. Learn how to more effectively run your immediate care or walk-in center as well as start incorporating urgent care services into your existing primary care practice. The chapters cover valuable information from industry experts on how to start, manage, and even sell your urgent care center.

Chapter 11 includes:

Background

Overview

Joint Commission Accreditation
- Before the Application
- Application
- Preparation
- Initial Survey
- After the Survey
- How Long Does the Joint Commission Accreditation Last?
- How Much Does It Cost?

Accreditation by the American Academy of Urgent Care Medicine
- Early Survey Program
- Costs

The Role of the Urgent Care Association America in Accreditation
- Certification by the Urgent Care Association of America
- Accreditation by the Urgent Care Association of America

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Mar 15, 2014
• ISBN: 9781940288352

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CHAPTER 11

Urgent Care Accreditation

Michael Kulczycki, Laurel Stoimenoff, and John Shufeldt

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CHAPTER 11

Urgent Care Accreditation

Michael Kulczycki, Laurel Stoimenoff, and John Shufeldt

EVERY URGENT CARE FACILITY operator will eventually confront the question of whether to get the facility accredited. Accreditation is a process that tells the stakeholders in your business (your patients, your community, your liability insurance company, your staff) that your facility adheres to a certain set of quality standards. These standards are meant to improve patient care and reduce the number of mistakes that can often plague hectic and information-heavy environments like urgent care and other health-care facilities.

For urgent care clinics, accreditation is generally not necessary to have a legally compliant operation, and most managed-care organizations don’t require accreditation at this time. Nonetheless, being able to show that your facility adheres to certain standards can help with receiving managed-care reimbursements, lowering your liability insurance expenses, and improving your operations.

BACKGROUND

Accreditation of medical facilities in the United States can be traced back to the Joint Commission, which was formed in 1951 as the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. The Joint Commission is a nonprofit organization that creates best practices guidelines for hospitals and medical facilities to ensure high-quality patient care. Although the Joint Commission’s original focus was on hospitals, in the mid-1970s the organization