Dorota Rakowiecki is the assistant director, program management for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care. She joined AAAHC in 2000 and held several leadership roles, including special projects manager and was responsible for New York office-based surgery organizations.
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St. Vincent Charity Medical Center in Cleveland has been selected as the first hospital in the country to participate in the Pacific Business Group on Health Employers Centers of Excellence Network for bariatric surgery.
Mountcastle Plastic Surgery & Vein Institute in Ashburn, Va., received accreditation.
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care granted four accreditations in Georgia between July 1 and Sept. 30, 2015, according to an AAAHC newsletter.
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The American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities granted accreditation to the Congressional Women's Surgery Center in Rockville, Md.
Six California-based ambulatory healthcare facilities earned accreditation from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care from July to September in 2015, according to an AAAHC newsletter.
The American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgical Facilities accredited The Cataract Surgery Center of Milford (Mass.).
Mark S. DeFrancesco, MD, president of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists as well as a board member of the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, was part of a group of healthcare leaders who met with United States…
Dixie Regional Medical Center in St. George, Utah, has been recognized as a bariatric center for excellence, according to St. George News.