Logansport Memorial Hospital continually examines its patient care processes to ensure that its standards of care meet or exceed the expectations of the accrediting organizations and our patients.
A partial list of those organizations for the hospital and its various departments is listed below:
Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) is authorized by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to survey hospitals, clinical laboratories and other healthcare facilities for compliance with CMS standards.
The Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) monitors the health care quality of hospitals through the licensure process. ISDH surveyors visit hospitals annually for licensure inspections of various departments.
The American Association for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation (AACVPR) promotes high standards of care in its certification process, based on education, prevention, rehabilitation, research, and disease management.
The American College of Radiology helps facilities improve and maintain the quality of mammography through its Mammography Accreditation Program.
The American Diabetes Association recognizes Diabetes Education Departments as meeting the national standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education.
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) optimizes laboratory performance through a voluntary accreditation to improve patient care, strengthen the deployment of quality standards, reduce errors and risk, and control costs.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regulates all laboratory testing in the U.S. through the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) to ensure quality laboratory testing.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission conducts in-depth surveys of healthcare Nuclear Medicine Departments to ensure that the highest standards of testing and patient care are followed.