Rural Health Clinic Inspection and Accreditation Program



	AAAASF has developed this program of inspection and accreditation to help improve the quality of patient care in rural health clinics. For nearly 30 years, AAAASF has inspected and accredited an array of surgery facilities using a nationally recognized set of standards that are considered the Gold Standard in the industry. We are expanding this concept to RHCs to establish a peer to peer accreditation program that mirrors our past efforts.


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Who is AAAASF? The American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities has been accrediting office based surgery facilities and ambulatory surgery centers since 1980. AAAASF has deemed status with Medicare for ASC accreditation. Facilities are accredited in all 50 States and through a subsidiary in seven other countries. With a background in surgery facility accreditation how will AAAASF have adequate knowledge to be able to accredit rural health clinics? From the first consideration of this project AAAASF has been working with the National Association of Rural Health Clinics to gain insight into the rural health clinic environment and to solicit expertise in the development of standards, training of inspectors, and recruitment of inspectors. Who will actually be doing the inspections? AAAASF prides itself in using peers to perform inspections. We will recruit inspectors from within rural health clinics. It is our goal that inspections be performed by physicians, nurses, physician assistants who work in rural health clinics and have been trained by AAAASF in the RHC accreditation standards that we have developed. Where can we find out more about AAAASF? Visit our web site and use the on line contact page to send questions. www.aaaasf.org

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