HCQM - Accreditation
Organizations 2026 Expert
Verifed Ace the Test
Accreditation - ANSWER ✔✔A voluntary process that a health care
institution, provider or program undergoes to demonstrate compliance
with standards developed by an official agency.
EA Codman - ANSWER ✔✔founded the American College of
Surgeons. Wanted to collect statistics to foster standardization across
hospitals.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals - ANSWER ✔✔In
1953, the American College of Surgeons, the American College of
Physicians, the American Hospital Association and the American Medical
, Association and the Canadian Medical Association formed this to handle
hospital accreditation.
Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program - ANSWER ✔✔Formed
by the American Osteopathic Association to provide medical facilities
with an objective review of their services.
1965 Darlington v Charleston Community Memorial Hospital -
ANSWER ✔✔Established institutional liability for the quality of
medical care provided by physicians
National Quality Forum - ANSWER ✔✔Established in 1999 with the
mission to improve the quality of US Healthcare
Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program - ANSWER ✔✔Created
in 2003 providing consumers with healthcare quality information.
Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (now the Physician Quality
Reporting System) - ANSWER ✔✔In 2006 formed to allow providers
to report on quality measures - although voluntary, Medicare payment
adjustments will be applied beginning 2015
Deemed authority - ANSWER ✔✔If a national accreditation
organization has, and enforces, standards that meet or exceed the
federal conditions of participation, CMS may grant the accrediting
Organizations 2026 Expert
Verifed Ace the Test
Accreditation - ANSWER ✔✔A voluntary process that a health care
institution, provider or program undergoes to demonstrate compliance
with standards developed by an official agency.
EA Codman - ANSWER ✔✔founded the American College of
Surgeons. Wanted to collect statistics to foster standardization across
hospitals.
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals - ANSWER ✔✔In
1953, the American College of Surgeons, the American College of
Physicians, the American Hospital Association and the American Medical
, Association and the Canadian Medical Association formed this to handle
hospital accreditation.
Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program - ANSWER ✔✔Formed
by the American Osteopathic Association to provide medical facilities
with an objective review of their services.
1965 Darlington v Charleston Community Memorial Hospital -
ANSWER ✔✔Established institutional liability for the quality of
medical care provided by physicians
National Quality Forum - ANSWER ✔✔Established in 1999 with the
mission to improve the quality of US Healthcare
Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program - ANSWER ✔✔Created
in 2003 providing consumers with healthcare quality information.
Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (now the Physician Quality
Reporting System) - ANSWER ✔✔In 2006 formed to allow providers
to report on quality measures - although voluntary, Medicare payment
adjustments will be applied beginning 2015
Deemed authority - ANSWER ✔✔If a national accreditation
organization has, and enforces, standards that meet or exceed the
federal conditions of participation, CMS may grant the accrediting
