Healthcare Regulation and Accreditation

Healthcare Regulation and Accreditation

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Healthcare regulation and accreditation

For a healthcare to run effectively and provide the best services to patients, there are regulations which involves rules and policies which must be adhered to. Following these regulations will make the healthcare more competitive and provide the best. Accreditation involves a set of approval from an accrediting body which gives it mandate to operate after ensuring that all workforce and the facilities have undergone a proper investigation and achieved a certain standard (Brown, & National Association for Healthcare Quality, 2012). Healthcare accreditation is a basic requirement to ensure good and safe provision of services.

Healthcare regulation plays a very important role in patient safety and also outlines what should and what should not be done by the medical professionals. Regulations stipulate clear laws and policies which must be fully observed or else a consequence follows for failure to observe it. It ensures that the performance of the healthcare is effective and meets the needs of patients. These regulations ensure that medic professionals adhere and follow some rules while under operation and treatment of patients. The things they are supposed to do while treating patients or what they should do before performing a certain surgical operation is a form of regulation. This regulation process will give better services and maintain good patient-physician relationship.

On the other hand, healthcare accreditation helps to eliminate unsafe practices by not permitting such practices to happen. Accreditation ensures that minimum standards are attained by the healthcare organization and failure to do so will definitely lead to closure of it. Accrediting bodies monitors the programs and procedures used by the healthcare and decide whether it has been successful or not in providing patient services (Levett, & Burney, 2014). This enables the healthcare to try its best in providing safety practices and services to patients.

Nursing Home Accreditation

Nursing homes are healthcare that takes care of those critically ill, the physically challenged and the aged. It is therefore complex to deal with. With the growing number of nursing homes, it requires a method of measuring the standards of different nursing homes so that those with the best services are recognized. Accreditation in nursing home helps set uniform standards that would lead other in providing excellent services and modern medical facilities (Brown, & National Association for Healthcare Quality, 2012). Accreditation in nursing homes notes the success of the facility and sets a guide that has to be followed in order to attain the best services.

Ambulatory Care Accreditation

Ambulatory care organizations are those that deal with surgical, dental, therapy and episodic care. These categories require high maintenance and standards so as to attain high quality services and better performance. Accreditation in this care addresses and specifies some necessities that ensure safety in offering services to patients. It sets the standards that must be attained in the operational processes in the system (Levett, & Burney, 2014). It states what is expected of them and whether it has been attained in the past years to examine its successes.

Role of accrediting agencies in improving clinical quality and healthcare outcomes

Accrediting agencies are responsible for improving the process of services and care offered by healthcare. Accreditation programs improve clinical outcomes of a wide variety of the field. It regulates and improves the market services the healthcare provides (Brown, & National Association for Healthcare Quality, 2012). It also helps to recognize the best healthcare providers so that the public can know where to get the best services. It also set standards that have to be achieved by healthcare organizations hence by so doing, the healthcare will automatically challenge its workforce to provide the best services and also get advanced facilities in their healthcare.

References

Brown, D. S., & National Association for Healthcare Quality (U.S.). (2012). Regulation, accreditation, and continuous readiness. Glenview, IL: National Association for Healthcare Quality.

Levett, J. M., & Burney, R. G. (2014). Using ISO 9001 in healthcare: Applications for quality systems, performance improvement, clinical integration, accreditation, and patient safety.