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Accreditation

Facility Accreditation | PPS

AAAHC, AAAASF, Joint Commission, and UCAOA accreditation preparation for ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care, and outpatient facilities.

Outpatient facilities — ambulatory surgery centers, office-based surgery suites, urgent care centers, multi-specialty clinics — increasingly need accreditation for payer participation, hospital affiliation, and state licensure compliance. PPS prepares facilities for the major accreditation bodies: AAAHC, AAAASF, The Joint Commission, and UCAOA for urgent care. The work is the same shape regardless of body: gap audit, policy build, document organization, mock survey, on-site survey readiness.

What’s included

  • Accreditation body selection — which body fits your facility type, payer requirements, and budget.
  • Standards gap audit — your current state vs. the body’s current standards manual.
  • Policy and procedure development — full P&P aligned to the standards.
  • Quality program — quality assurance, performance improvement, infection control, medication management.
  • Document organization — credentialing files, clinical records, governance documents.
  • Mock survey — running your team through a survey before the real one.
  • Application coordination — submission and back-and-forth with the accrediting body.
  • On-site survey readiness — surveyor host coordination, document staging, gap remediation.
  • Re-accreditation when the cycle comes around (typically every 3 years).

How it works

Months 1-2. Body selection and gap audit.

Months 2-5. P&P and quality program build, document organization, staff training on standards.

Months 5-6. Mock survey, gap remediation, application submission.

Months 6-9. Accrediting body review, on-site survey, accreditation decision.

Total: typically 6-12 months depending on starting operational maturity and complexity of the facility.

Who this is for

  • New ambulatory surgery centers preparing for first-time accreditation.
  • Established outpatient facilities needing accreditation to participate in a new payer panel.
  • UC centers — see Urgent Care Accreditation for the UCAOA-specific track.
  • Office-based surgery practices facing new state regulation requiring accreditation.

Get started

Tell us your facility type, location, target accreditation date, and whether you have a preference among accrediting bodies (or want help choosing).

Start an accreditation scope — or read about Urgent Care Accreditation for UCAOA-specific work.