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Our JCAHO Facility

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The Lakes Medical Center
Our detoxification treatment is performed in a JCAHO accredited surgical facility.

The Lakes Medical Center is a 20,000 square foot state-of-the-art surgery center and includes four operating rooms, two procedure rooms, pre-operative and post-operative recovery areas and a large reception area. It is state licensed and is fully accredited by the JCAHO: Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The Lakes Medical and Surgical Center is also affiliated with National Surgical Hospitals. 

Joint Commission On Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

Our facility is accredited by JCAHO.

What does that mean to you?

The Gold Standard for Quality in Health Care

What is accreditation?

Accreditation means that our outpatient facility has volunteered to undergo a challenging, comprehensive evaluation. We have made a significant extra effort to review and improve the key factors that can affect the quality and safety of your care.

Accreditation by JCAHO is considered the Gold Standard in health care. Hospitals have been evaluated by JCAHO for more than 50 years. Our facility is accredited just as the hospitals in your community are accredited.

Doctors and nurses from JCAHO personally visited our facility to conduct a review and looked at how well our facility:

  • Provides a safe environment for your care
  • Educates you about the risks and options for diagnosis and treatment
  • Protects your rights as a patient, including your right to confidentiality
  • Evaluates your condition, before, during and after diagnosis and treatment
  • Protects you against infection
  • Plans for emergency situations

How does an organization become JCAHO accredited?

JCAHO accreditation is voluntary. JCAHO surveyors were invited to our facility for an intense on-site review. Then our facility received a report identifying its strengths, and outlining what it could improve.

Only a small percentage of outpatient settings have gone through this kind of evaluation.

Whenever and wherever you receive health care, look for the JCAHO "gold seal of approval".

What is JCAHO?

The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to raising the level of safety and quality of care in all health care settings. Since 1951, JCAHO accreditation has been recognized within health care as a symbol of quality.

JCAHO's governing board includes doctors, nurses, medical directors and consumers. JCAHO sets the standards that measure health care quality in America and around the world. On a continuing basis, groups of doctors, nurses, and representatives of national health care organizations meet to review the standards for care, and make recommendations for additions and improvements to the requirements.

How can I find out more about accreditation?

For more information on accreditation of health care organizations, visit www.jcaho.org. To find other accredited health care organizations, look for "Quality Check".

JCAHO's mission - To continuously improve the safety and quality of care provided to the public through the provision of health care accreditation and related services that support performance improvement in health care.

Download a PDF to learn more about JCAHO Accreditation.

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