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Hospital accreditation and quality improvement - Healthy Debate Accreditation Canada notes in its 2010-2013 Strategic Plan that its “role in knowledge transfer to support ongoing quality improvement and adoption of best practices needs to be defined and further developed” and that Accreditation Canada’s “role in enhancing public awareness of the role and value of accreditation should be clarified”
Why it’s important Canada accredits its own medical schools Here’s how the body responsible for Canadian accreditation, which includes members of the medical profession and the public appointed by the Canadian Medical Association (CMA), has been working toward a sovereign undergraduate medical school accreditation process – and how standards differ from the U S
How patients are changing health care accreditation - Healthy Debate How do patient surveyors change the accreditation process? In terms of logistics, there are few differences between Accreditation Canada’s peer and patient surveyors The organization has adapted its surveyor competency framework, and now uses the same one when assessing potential patient surveyors that they do when assessing potential peer surveyors They train both patients and peers
The training gap undermining Canada’s primary care teams The infrastructure for change exists: interprofessional education frameworks, accreditation bodies, health professional schools and policy momentum What’s missing is coordinated action extending primary care training requirements beyond family medicine This requires collaboration across sectors
Jonathan I. Mitchell - Healthy Debate Jonathan I Mitchell is Vice-President, Research and Policy at HealthCareCAN with 20 years’ experience in health care, Jonathan has also worked for the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, Accreditation Canada, and the Canadian Institute for Health Information
Interpretation services in health care - Healthy Debate Canada lacks enforceable national standards for healthcare interpretation Canada lacks enforceable national standards for healthcare interpretation for people with limited English and French proficiency and is behind other jurisdictions such as the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, in providing such services
Should hospital staff satisfaction survey results be public? Nationally, Accreditation Canada requires staff satisfaction surveys every two years (The body accredits all hospitals and most long term care facilities across the country ) While it provides a standard tool, institutions can choose to distribute their own survey
Quality Archives - Page 3 of 4 - Healthy Debate Hospital accreditation is a process that assesses a hospital’s performance against a set of standards This process is done differently across provinces and countries In Canada, most hospitals go through an accreditation process conducted by Accreditation Canada
‘Transformation’ in health care depends on leaders’ people skills LEADS Global is a member of the Canadian Health Leadership Network (CHLNet) and has partnered with Accreditation Canada International and the Royal College Canada International to take health leadership programs abroad Republish this article on your website under the creative commons licence
Combating antibiotic resistance in Canada - Healthy Debate This is in part due to the introduction of an Accreditation Canada requirement that all inpatient acute care hospitals establish stewardship programs Wendy Nicklin, CEO of Accreditation Canada notes that this is just the first year that this requirement has been in place, and there is much room for improvement