Accreditation for Rural Health Clinics
Rural Health Clinic Accreditation
Rural health clinics will soon be able to receive accreditation from the first name in quality. Rural Health Clinic Accreditation from The Joint Commission was developed to help improve quality and safety for patients in rural communities seeking preventive and specialized outpatient care.
Why is Rural Health Important?
15% of Americans live in rural communities*. Aside from the distance rural Americans are from health care providers, many people suffer from conditions putting their health at risk, such as high blood pressure and obesity. And, Rural Americans are also more likely to die from heart disease, cancer, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease, and stroke than their urban counterparts.*
* Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Benefits of Joint Commission Accreditation
- Enhance and objectively validate your performance reliability
- Proactively minimize risk areas for your patients, staff and brand
- Leverage a vetted framework to grow or expand services
How We Differ
- Exceptional customer service and educational resources
- Survey that is tailor-made for your services
- On-site delivery of accreditation report and final report issued within 10 days of survey to expedite receipt of your accreditation decision
- Surveyor with clinical expertise in ambulatory care and critical access hospitals for a tailored assessment
Standards
- Staff competency
- Patient assessment
- Medication management
- Infection control
Survey Experience
Customers describe The Joint Commission’s survey process as educational and collaborative – an opportunity to enhance business practices guided by trusted industry experts. Our surveyors assess compliance to our standards in real time, guided by the client experience and our unique “tracer” method. We conclude by providing your leadership team with a thorough objective, assessment and practical strategies for ongoing performance improvement.
Tools to help you succeed
- Dedicated account executive to guide you through your accreditation journey
- Standards FAQs for help with questions
- Personalized web account to manage your application, account, and communications from The Joint Commission
- Publicity kit and listing on The Joint Commission’s website, Quality Check®, to assist with promoting your achievement
- Checklists, webinars, seminars and much more to help you prepare for and maintain your accreditation
- The SAFER® Dashboard, a powerful business intelligence tool that helps organizations easily access data, identify trends and compare then with multiple variables
