...of course, is high quality of care. This is a voluntary organization composed of representatives of the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Physicians, the American Medical Association, and the American Hospital Association, and we would urge that this provision be...

...official agencies. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, composed of representatives from the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Physicians, the American VETERANS ADMINISTRATION MEDICAL PROGRAM College of General Practitioners, the American Medical Association,...

...official agencies. Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, composed of representatives from the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Physicians, the American College of General Practitioners, the American Medical Association, the American Hospital Association,...

...JCAH is made up of members from the American College of Physicians, the American College of Surgeons, the American Hospital Association, the American Medical...Association, and the Canadian Medical Association. In recent years, there have been fewer limitations on the hospitals where doctors of osteopathy may...

...for description of how the commission operates. The founding sponsors of the joint commission were the American College of Surgeons, the American College...Association and the Canadian Medical Association. The effectiveness of this organization in regulating hospitals has been significant. I 01 example, written...

...growing progrsra, the College solicited the participation of other national professional organizations. The American College of Physicians, the American Hospital...Association, and the Canadian Medical Association (which subsequently i.'lthdrew i: 959 to p-.rti— Porterfield Statement cipate In its own national...

...Psychiatric Hospitals Division of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, an instrumentality of the American College of Surgeons, the American College...of Physicians, the American Hospital Association, and the American Medical Association. Section 18<ir> of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act provides...

...Psychiatric Hospitals Division of Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, an instrumentality of the American College of Surgeons, the American College...of Physicians, the American Hospital Association, and the American Medical Association, Section 1865 of Title XVIII of the Social Security Act provides...

...addressing myself to this legislation, I would like to present background information about JCAH. In 1951 the American College of Physicians, the American Hospital...Association, and the Canadian Medical Association (which withdrew in 1959 to participate in its own national hospital accreditation program) joined with...

...addressing those issues specifically, I would lixe to present background information about JCAH. In 1951 the American College of Physicians, the American Hospital...Association, the American Medical Association, and the ^rmdian Medical Association (which withdrew in 1959 to participate in its own national hospital accreditation...