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American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities (AAAASF)

By admin | June 13, 2007

It is the mission of the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities, Inc. (AAAASF) to develop and implement standards of excellence to ensure the highest quality of patient care through an accreditation program that serves both the medical community and the public interest by establishing a means for measuring medical competence and providing an external source for evaluating patient safety in the ambulatory surgery setting.

To accomplish this mission, AAAASF has the following goals:

* To provide the medical community and the public interest with a means of standardizing and improving the quality of medical and surgical care in the ambulatory environment:
* To encourage the highest level of competence for medical and surgical care of patients in the ambulatory setting.
* To provide a forum for the discussion of new concepts in ambulatory surgery care and a repository of information that can be disseminated to the public and medical community.
* To encourage constant improvement in the quality of care provided to patients in the ambulatory surgery setting.
* To provide a means of measuring both medical and surgical competence, and ethical conduct, by providing an external source for the evaluation of professional credentialing, patient safety and quality of care.

The American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities, Inc. was established in 1980 to develop an accreditation program to standardize and improve the quality of medical and surgical care in ambulatory surgery facilities while assuring the public of high standards for patient care and safety in an accredited facility.

Today more than 1000 ambulatory surgery facilities are accredited by AAAASF, the largest not-for-profit accrediting organization in the United States. Many more facilities are in process for accreditation. These numbers have increased dramatically over the last two years. Surgeons, legislators, state and national health agencies and patients acknowledge that AAAASF stands alone as the program setting the “Gold Standard” for quality patient care.

AAAASF Website

Frequently Asked Questions

Contact Information:

American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities
P.O. Box 9500 Gurnee, IL 60031
5101 Washington Street Suite 2F
Gurnee, IL 60031
Tel: 1.888.545.5222
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