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VA Health Care: Compliance with Joint Commission Accreditation Requirements Is Improving

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date Dec. 13, 1991
Report No. HRD-92-19
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Summary:

In April 1990, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations told the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) that VA medical centers did significantly worse than non-VA hospitals in accreditation surveys done from 1987 to 1989. These surveys also showed that medical centers failed many key quality assurance elements more often than their non-VA counterparts. GAO found that VA medical centers surveyed in 1990 did substantially better than those surveyed in 1989. In addition, their overall compliance scores were close to those received by non-VA hospitals in 1990. Also, VA medical centers scored substantially higher on many key quality assurance elements that constitute the overall scores. This was a direct result of efforts by the VA central office, regional offices, and individual medical centers to ensure that medical centers were following Commission requirements and properly documenting their quality assurance activities.

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