you have a policy in place for each one. "Our accreditation is like an
open-book test," says Gary M. Brownstein, MD, vice president of
education for the American Association for Accreditation of
Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAASF). "We have the standards
spelled out, so we expect our facilities to be in compliance 100%."
You can make the process even easier by getting electronic copies of
the agency's standards, adds Ms. Berreth. This lets you keyword
search the standards, so you can quickly see if you have a correspon-
ding policy in place. You'll also want to follow the agency's directions
closely. "Make note of the standards that say you must have a written
policy, because surveyors will always ask for it," says Ms.
Kleinhesselink.
Organizing your survey documents into a binder takes time, but it
saves your surveyor a
headache later on.
"The Joint
Commission's list of
required survey docu-
ments is well-known to
the facility. So, if that
list has the facility's
floor plans listed as the
first required docu-
ment, it helps to have
that first thing in your
binder," says Dr. Chinn.
"When the facility has
it all organized and it's
easy to reference, it
makes the first hour so
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