AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement Commemorates 10-Year Anniversary

The AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement, a not-for-profit subsidiary of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in 2010, according to an AAAHC news release.

Created by the AAAHC 10 years ago, the AAAHC Institute is among the few organizations to provide ambulatory care providers with opportunities for benchmarking on a national level. To date, the AAAHC Institute has conducted and published more than 50 performance measurement studies and has convened annual national educational forums on quality improvement in ambulatory healthcare.

"Involvement in clinical performance measurement is a signal to patients, government agencies, professional liability insurers and third-party payors that an ambulatory healthcare organization is committed to continually improving the care it provides to its patients," Naomi Kuznets, PhD, managing director of the AAAHC Institute, said in the release. "Our reports and other activities identify and promote practices that enable ambulatory healthcare professionals to provide high quality, cost-effective care and a better experience to their patients."

Learn more about the AAAHC Institute for Quality Improvement. www.aaahciqi.org