BACKGROUND The National HIV Reference Laboratory (NHRL) serves as Kenya's referral HIV laboratory, offering specialised testing and external quality assessment, as well as operating the national HIV serology proficiency scheme. In 2010, the Kenya Ministry of Health established a goal for NHRL to achieve international accreditation. OBJECTIVES This study chronicles the journey that NHRL took i...

Health development is an integral and most important part of national development. Puskesmas a leading service unit can directly reach the community, carry out health services. Accreditation aims to assess quality system in other First Level Service Facilities. are required be able guarantee improvement, performance improvement implementation risk management that carried on ongoing basis, so it...

Limited evidence exists on whether government owned-and-funded hospital accreditation system brings long-lasting impact in terms of continuous quality improvement to patient care. Literature shows that hospitals might adopt opportunistic behaviors solely with the aim of gaining accreditation particularly when governments link the quality improvement objective of accreditation with payment mecha...

In 2014, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), American Osteopathic Association (AOA), and American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine approved a single accreditation system for graduate medical education in the United States. For osteopathic graduate medical education programs transitioning to ACGME accreditation, this change has been met with a mixture...

INTRODUCTION Health service accreditation programmes are a regulatory mechanism adopted to drive improvements inpatient safety and quality. Research investigating the benefits or limitations, of consumer involvement in accreditation programmes is negligible. To develop our knowledge in this area the ACCREDIT collaboration (Accreditation Collaborative for the Conduct of Research, Evaluation and ...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to describe effects of the accreditation process of the National Commission for Academic Assessment and Accreditation (NCAAA) and its impact on the quality of medical education in one medical college in Saudi Arabia. METHODS We conducted a mixed (qualitative-quantitative) study in Qassim University College of Medicine, where an accreditation exercise led by NCAAA was...

President Evan R. Collins at his Monday afternoon conference with students announced reasons for the deferment of accreditation for the School of Social Welfare on 221 Ontario Street. He explained that the Council for Social Work on Education announced that there will be a deferment of accreditation for the School of Social Welfare. The relative short existence of the „ school was cited as the ...

Successful navigation through the accreditation process developed by the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB) requires strong and effective leadership. Situational leadership, a contingency theory of leadership, frequently taught in the public health classroom, has utility for leading a public health agency through this process. As a public health agency pursues accreditation, staff members...

OBJECTIVES This study describes the development of the Zambia Hospital Accreditation Program from 1997 to 2000. Ten major milestones are presented and discussed, as are challenges to the program. DESIGN Data were collected through a review of written documents, interviews with major stakeholders, hospital visits, and discussions with implementers. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Zambia has successful...

All CME educational activities developed and presented by a provider accredited by the ACCME system and associated with AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM must be developed and presented in compliance with all ACCME accreditation requirements in addition to all the requirements of the AMA PRA program. All activities so designated for, or awarded, credit will be subject to review by the ACCME accredita...