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Accrediting Healthcare Organizations
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URAC, formerly known as the Utilization Review Accreditation Commission, promotes healthcare quality by accrediting healthcare organizations.
An Independent Nonprofit
URAC, an independent, nonprofit organization is well known as a leader in promoting healthcare quality through its accreditation, education, and measurement programs. URAC offers a wide range of quality benchmarking programs and services that keep pace with the rapid changes in the healthcare system, and provide a symbol of excellence for organizations to validate their commitment to quality and accountability.
Mission
URAC’s mission is to promote continuous improvement in the quality and efficiency of health care management through processes of accreditation and education.
Assessment
Through its broad-based governance structure and an inclusive standards development process, URAC ensures that all stakeholders are represented in establishing meaningful quality measures for the entire healthcare industry.
For more information, visit www.urac.org.
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Oh-Oh!
U.S. News & World Report’s Rankings of the Top 50 American Hospitals
http://www.annals.org/content/152/8/521.abstract?aimhp
Role and reputation is questioned by Ashwini R. Sehgal MD.
We trust this is not like Wall Street?
Hope Hetico RN
[Managing Editor]
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Medical Quality Still Needs Improvement
Hospital quality “needs significant improvement” and “waste remains rampant,” according to the latest Leapfrog hospital survey, released last week.
http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/leapfrog-hospital-survey-quality-still-down-waste
URAC … SMURAC!
Kathy
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Ranking Hospitals – Bogus Metrics?
Researcher Ashwini R. Sehgal MD concluded that:
“the relative standings of the top 50 hospitals largely reflect the subjective reputations of those hospitals. Moreover, little relationship exists between subjective reputation and objective measures of hospital quality among the top 50 hospitals.”
http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/Hospital-rankings-by-U.S.-News-and-World-Report-rely-on-reputation-rather-than-quality/2010-04-20
So, what’s the point of ranking?
Clifton
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