Accreditation Process For Patients And Providers Act ( Mippa )

Paradise Hills Medical Center’s radiation department, made a radiation overdose on 22 oncology patients. The error was attributed to a flaw in the radiation equipment

Furthermore, from 1960 to 1971, a renowned radiologist, Dr. Eugene L. Saenger and his colleagues at the University of Cincinnati, conducted experiments on 88 cancer patients, aged 9 to 84, many of whom were low-income Americans, and 60% of whom were Black (Schneider, 1994). The patients were exposed to full body radiation treatment without their consent, and misinformed that the treatment had the potential to help cure their specific form of cancer, despite existing evidence to the contrary (Schneider, 1994). Patients suffered from severe stomach

The history of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals is a story of the health professions’ commitment to patient care of high quality in the 20th century. According to Dr. Ernest Codman, founder of the accreditation system, which would enable hospitals to track every patient it treat long enough to determine whether or not the treatment was effective. If not, the hospital would figure out how to prevent similar failures in the future (Roberts, Coale & Redman, 1987).

The Joint Commission is an accrediting agency that evaluates the services provided by health institutions and recognize that after their assessments meet all requirements. This visit is requested by the institution and after being accredited are visited every three years. “The Joint Commission is working to align and improve how accreditation and certification work together to enhance their value to organizations” (Horn, 2012, p.243). It is a prestige by being accredited by the Joint Commission. The hospital institution is evaluated in all aspects evaluated from the triage is performed in the ER, permits, documentation, security, administration of drugs, surgical procedures, to infection control and other aspects that are related to the safety

Accreditation is a process by which an impartial organization (URAC) will review a company’s operations to ensure that the company is conducting business in a manner consistent with national standards. For a physician and a nurse after they receive their degree they have to do continuing education courses every year to maintain their licensing with that particular state. These classes are generally known as CME’s (Continuing medical education). They serve to “maintain, develop, or increase the knowledge, skills, and professional performance and relationships that a physician uses to provide services for patients, the public, or the profession” (ACCME). That being said

Charles HaydenTatia Green, onlineMB208-ICD-1012/3/2015Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health CareIn 1979, a nonprofit organization was established to assist ambulatory health care organizations in improving the quality care provided to patients. This organization which some may know of is called Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. which: "Encourage and assist ambulatory health care organizations to provide the highest achievable level of care for recipients in the most efficient and economically sound manner. The AAAHC accomplishes this by the operation of a peer-based assessment, consultation, education and accreditation program." American College Health Association, Ambulatory Surgery Foundation, The American Group Practice Association, Group Health Association of America, Medical Group Management Association and the National Association of Community Health Centers are the six founding members of AAAHC. A few things that this association does are measure performance, provide consultation and education, review and revise standards. AAAHC accreditation means the organization participates in an ongoing self evaluation, peer review and education to continuously improve its care and services. Not only does this organization live up to its standards, but commits thorough onsite survey by AAAHC surveyors whom are also health care professionals. When surveying an organization, the AAAHC includes the following as listed: Patient RightsAre patients

The “Do Not Use” List was created to minimize medical errors. Mistakes were being made in relation to incorrect use of terminology. Before long, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), an independent organization that accredits and certifies more than 20,500 health care organizations and programs in the United States, introduced the list as a requirement in accredited organizations in 2004. It includes abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols that should no longer be used.

Keeping track of the radiation doses by several employees is also a good way to prevent these medical errors. This action, as you said, would make people accountable for the administration of the treatment. Paradise Hill failed to implement these controls and as a result a preventable medical error was done.

Although there have been signs of leukemia, there is still uncertainty if that long hours of radiation exposure has any effect on x-ray techs. (RSNA) Although I first believed that as an x-ray tech I would be diagnosed with cancer or some other disease, I now know that there is only a slight possibility that I will even be diagnosed. Even though getting zapped by some kind of radiation would turn the x-ray tech into a powerful beast would be cool, it is impossible… for now anyways.

Accreditation is a recognized seal of approval for many institutions in the United States. It is needed by the hospitals to become providers in the Medicare program. In order to receive payment from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), hospitals are required to meet a set of minimum requirements called conditions of participation. There are three organizations that can accredit hospitals based on the participation requirements– the Joint Commission, the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), or the state certification agencies [1]. More than 80% hospitals in the country voluntarily use the Joint Commission for accreditation purposes.

The healthcare industry is comprised of a wide range of interdependent but self-sustaining organizations, facilities and care providers. In light of this complex and multilayered system, overarching regulatory conditions are a necessity. This is reflected in the three distinct organizations selected for discussion. In Scripps Mercy Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility, the Alvarado Parkway Institute La Mesa on Behavioral Health and the Naval Medical Center San Diego Radiology Department, we are presented with three organizations of different functions but beholden to similar or overlapping standards. Scripps Mercy is a skilled nursing facility specializing in inpatient treatment procedures. Alvaredo Parkway is an inpatient and outpatient psychiatric facility and the Naval Medical Center is a radiology and screening outpatient facility. All three serve the San Diego Metropolitan Community.

This is particularly important in patients at higher risk of radiation injury (e.g. younger patients) especially those requiring repeated imaging follow-up.

Since the technologies being used only bounce waves of the body surface, this leaves then skin highly exposed to concentrated amounts of radiation. Health side effect studies of full body scanners have been labeled classified and inaccessible to the general public. Four professors from the University of California- San Francisco, whom are well respected cancer, X-ray crystallographers and imaging experts stated in a letter to the Obama administration that, “The low-energy rays do a “Compton scatter” off tissue layers just under the skin, possibly exposing some vital areas and leaving the tissues at risk of mutation. When an X-ray Compton scatters, it doesn’t shift an electron to a higher energy level; instead, it hits the electron hard enough to dislodge it from its atom.” The authors note that this process is “likely breaking bonds,” which could cause mutations in cells and raise the risk of cancer (Johnston). Furthermore, the UCSF researchers write in their letter, “older passengers are more susceptible to mutagenic effects of X-rays, and “the risk of

radiation (the kind used in X-rays) is known to cause cancer at high doses, the risks of

With this stability and mass production, x-rays machines became very common everywhere. From large factories, to doctors offices, all the way to the corner store of small towns, where children and adults alike could insert a coin into a machine and view the bones in their feet. (3.) Because of their relative adolescences in the world, not much was known about x-rays or their effects on the human body. The first theories about the rays’ effects on the human body were that they had beneficial applications. With this being the only theory about their effect, widespread use went on, unmonitored, and unregulated. This unregulated use led to injuries but because of their slow onset the injuries were never attributed to x-rays. While some scientists tied certain skin burns to over exposure of x-rays it wasn’t until popular minds of the world like Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla and William J. Morton expressed that they experienced eye pain when dealing with the rays for extended periods of time that people began to connect the dots and understand the negative