Accreditations  

NorthBay Healthcare’s hospitals, programs and services such as the NorthBay Cancer Center and NorthBay Health at Home are accredited by respected professional organizations. Accreditation helps the staff ensure they continue to meet stringent professional standards and assures consumers that their health care provider considers quality care to be the highest priority. Below is a list of accreditations earned by NorthBay Healthcare’s hospitals and services. Click below for more information.

JCAHO – NorthBay Medical Center and VacaValley Hospital

JCAHO Home Care Accreditation Program – NorthBay Health at Home

ADA – NorthBay Health Education Department

ACOS – NorthBay Cancer Center

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JCAHO – NorthBay Medical Center and VacaValley Hospital

NorthBay Medical Center and VacaValley Hospital are accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO). JCAHO accreditation is recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality that reflects an organization’s commitment to meeting certain performance standards. To earn and maintain accreditation, an organization must undergo an on-site survey by a JCAHO survey team at least every three years.

JCAHO evaluates and accredits nearly 18,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. An independent, not-for-profit organization, JCAHO is the nation’s predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. Since 1951, JCAHO has developed state-of-the-art, professionally based standards and evaluated the compliance of health care organizations against these benchmarks. Additional information may be obtained through their website at www.jcaho.org.

JCAHO Home Care Accreditation

NorthBay Health at Home is accredited by the Joint Commission’s Home Care Accreditation Program, established in 1988 to offer a seal of approval to organizations that offer a variety of services in the patient or client’s home. NorthBay Health at Home is also a Medicare-certified home care program.

ADA – NorthBay Healthcare Health Education Department

NorthBay Healthcare’s Health Education Department has been awarded recognition for excellence in Diabetes Education by the American Diabetes Association. Recognition is awarded after intense scrutiny of our patient education program. For further information, visit the American Diabetes Association website at www.diabetes.org.

ACOS – NorthBay Cancer Center

The NorthBay Cancer Center was accredited by the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer in 1996 and it was the first non-military accredited cancer program in Solano County. The Commission on Cancer is a standard-setting organization established in 1922. It is dedicated to improving health care for people with cancer. More than 1400 cancer programs across the nation are accredited by the Commission on Cancer. The approved programs submit cancer data to the National Cancer Data Base (NCDB), a joint project of the Commission and the American Cancer Society.

Ten areas of each cancer program are evaluated through the survey process of the Commission on Cancer:

• Institutional and Programmatic Resources
• Program management and administration
• Clinical management
• Inpatient and outpatient care
• Supportive and continuing care
• Research
• Quality Management and Improvement
• Cancer Data Management
• Public education, prevention and detection
• Professional education and staff support

For further information, visit the Commission’s website at www.facs.org.

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