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Home Care Application: Accreditation
Savannah Rainey
Grand Canyon University
HCA-460: Operations and Risk Management in Health Care
Professor Vernon Thacker
2 June 2024
Accreditation for Assisted Living Facilities
Assisted living is a facility in which elderly family members are placed with caring and passionate provider care. In the provided scenario, the accreditation needed for this facility is the ACHC. ACHC focuses on two objectives in assisted living facilities: quality of care and quality of life (Chothani, n.d.). They assist the facility in applying strategic methods for improvement and are supportive before, during, and after the survey to “empower you to meet your accreditation goals,” (Chothani, n.d.). Pros and Cons of Accreditation
There are pros and cons to every situation. In accreditation specifically, the pros include recognition of quality, that standards of performance are met, and providing an organization opportunity to improve (Tabrizi et al., 2011). Accreditation can ensure safe care and will keep an organization competitive because if they are accredited, insurers will assume
the facility is safe for their patients. Cons of accreditation include cost, a chance of failure, an
inconvenience, and no longer necessary for reimbursement by private insurers (OSD Staff, 2007). Stakeholder Involvement
Stakeholders to include in this decision would be staff, insurers, residents and their families, and policymakers. Ensuring the primary stakeholders (residents and their families) are informed of this will be the most affected so they must be the first to know. The secondary stakeholders (insurers, staff, and policymakers) are those who have an interest in the business and can be more prone to affect the organization, and the tertiary stakeholders (administrator) because they are directly affected by the success or failure of this decision.
References
Chothani, J. (n.d.).
Assisted Living Accreditation
. ACHC. https://www.achc.org/assisted-
living/
OSD Staff. (2007).
Weighing the Pros and Cons of Accreditation - Outpatient Surgery Magaz
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Tabrizi, J. S., Gharibi, F., & Wilson, A. J. (2011). Advantages and Disadvantages of Health Care Accreditation Mod-els.
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