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There are external and internal reasons that drive healthcare organizations to improve their quality of healthcare. External reasons for quality improvements come from governments, insurers, and consumers requiring that healthcare organizations provide and continue to improve on high-quality and safer health care. The internal reasons for quality improvements come from staff who work within these healthcare organizations. The quality of healthcare differs from city to city and even from country to country. In order for healthcare organizations to meet the quality of care expectations demanded and set themselves apart from other healthcare organizations, they pursue becoming accredited. One must understand what accreditation is, the history of accreditation and what the future holds for accreditation, in order to understand how being accredited can improve the quality in healthcare.

Healthcare performance is strongly dependent on the economy, and on the health systems themselves. There are many debates on the type of health care system. Insurance companies are the crucial investor that is not only demanded but also an essential priority for most societies due to some of the complex challenges in the health system, in part derived from new pressures, such as ageing populations, growing prevalence of chronic illnesses, and intensive use of expensive yet vital health technologies (Frenk, J. 2004). Government has a diverse role in the health care system. However, based on the need and preference of majorities of American societies, a system with single government control in U.S, might not be effective and qualitative in long run. The present multi payer system is more effective in health care delivery. The reform in the overall management system of government organization focusing its role on supervising and controlling the health services’ system than distributing one is necessary.

Improving the quality of health care system is the main goal of this organization. In this case study we will be talking about the strategic plans being made by the organization for the next decade to deal with the problems of resource management, network growth, patient satisfaction as well as nurse staffing. The readiness of the organization towards catering the citizens' needs for health care will also be discussed in this case study (Goetsch and Davis, 2010).

Health care organizations generally volunteer to seek accreditations from the Joint Commission by allowing expert surveyors evaluate their facility. The surveyors are made up of a multi-disciplinary team that spends an average of two days inspecting health care facilities. The purpose for the inspection is to evaluate a health care facilities standards, staff, regulations, policies and procedures, and quality improvement, and performance measurement. The Joint Commission surveyors generally look to see if the organizations governing board is taking part in ensuring that the facilities has facilitated safety and quality assurance program.

There are several types of health agencies within the United States that share common goals and complete similar tasks. Most agencies works together to provide good quality of care and patient’s safety. In today’s society, every health care organization should provide a proof of accreditation and are subject to a three-year

At present, the accreditation is a process of review that health care organizations participate in to display the ability to meet approved criteria and standards of accreditation. Accreditation represents agencies as credible and reputable organizations dedicated to ongoing and continuous compliance with the highest standard of quality. Professional accrediting agency work together with the health care industry experts to create standards to ensure that quality is maintained throughout all aspects of an organization (Accreditation Commission for Health Care, 2008; Greenfield, Pawsey & Braithwaite, 2010). However, the on-site surveys are conducted, today unannounced, by health care industry experts. A inclusive review is conducted of organizational structure, policies and procedures, compliance with federal, state, and local laws, leadership, patients’ rights and responsibilities, fiscal operations, human resource management, provision of

The surveys are meant to be specific and consistent and are not just used to evaluate the organizations for improvement but are also to educate in the best practice standards adopted throughout health care and to help staff in ways to continually improve an organizations performance. For this purpose, in 1996 the Quality Check website was launched to help the Joint Commission provide information regarding the performance of accredited organizations to consumers and organizations. Users are able to search for accredited or certified organizations; they can locate organizations by either type of service or geographical area and lists of certified organizations as well as a hospital’s performance measures can be obtained.

JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) Joint Commission Standards. 2000. Retrieved from www.jcaho.org/standard/jcstandards.html

Since it’s founding in 1951, The Joint Commission has set standards and completed evaluations and accreditations for over 20,000 health facilities. Though not a government agency,The Joint Commission has a great level of authority in the field of healthcare and approval from the organization is often required by local health departments and CMS. Receiving the Commission’s seal of approval also goes a long way with potential clients familiar with the high standard of

The article The standard of healthcare accreditation standards by Greenfield, Pawsey, Hinchcliff, Moldovan, Braithwaite (2012) talks about how health care accreditation standards are advocated and used as a way to express the importance of improving clinical practices as well as organizational performance in Hospitals. These agencies have documented methodologies that will help develop

XYZ Healthcare Organization plays a very crucial role in preventing illness, relieving pain, and promotion wellness and wellbeing of individual through all stages of life. To realize its aims and objectives, the organization needs funding to continue with very sensitive and important services. There are several approaches that can be adopted to ensure funding of healthcare services. These approaches include the use of insurance medical covers by the patients, funding from the government, private sectors and other nongovernmental organization. The burden of healthcare funding should not just be

The review includes structure, policies, compliance with laws, leadership, human resource management and provision of care. Organizations demonstrate how they maintained consistent compliance with the ACHC Accreditation Standards.

The cost of running a system supported by government resources is too costly, and it will not help the deficit. The organizations responsibility for the regulatory practices of the ACO with the best method to improve quality and greater collaboration of care providers that will reduce cost. Unavoidably, the infrastructure would result with consolidation, coordination in the sector of health care. The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission

The future and direction of health care has been the topic of discussion amongst politician and U.S citizens today. There are several challenges surrounding the future and strategic direction in which health care should be heading. Accreditation, quality of health care and organization’s compliance; access to health care, maintaining a skilled workforce, information technology and pay for performance are some of the challenges that currently presenting itself in healthcare today. If health care is not dealt with appropriately it will have a significant effect an impact on the strategic direction in the future and direction of care.

It is important to do accountability because it is an only way of enhancing task incentive. This makes the organization's policies responsive and also effective. That is why different mechanisms of accountability have come up including hospital boards, public campaigns, and village health committees. These are being used to bring awareness publicly and also globally in implementation of health services and programs (Herzlinger 2006). They support a wide range of activities which include