Moorestown Visiting Nurse Association has been recognized for its quality home and community based care by the Community Health Accreditation Program. Michele L. Fiore, vice president of clinical services, private services and “Living Life” Palliative Care, has been appointed by the CHAP Board of Directors to a three-year term on CHAP’s Board of Review. BOR members are selected from organizations who have achieved CHAP accreditation with no or minimal deficiencies over at least two accreditation cycles.
Responsibilities of the BOR include reviewing accreditation related reports, analyzing data for relevance to CHAP Standards and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Standards and Conditions for home health, hospice and durable medical equipment, and making objective accreditation decisions. In addition, the BOR makes recommendations to the CHAP Board of Directors and/or the CHAP administration regarding accreditation policies, procedures and practices, including updates to the Standards of Excellence. Members of the BOR adhere to a strict code of ethics and update their pledge of avoiding conflicts of interest and confidentiality statements annually.
Since 1965, first as a subsidiary of the National League for Nursing and the American Public Health Association, and now as an independent non-profit, CHAP has been committed to community-based health care. The CHAP gold seal of approval assures patients and their families, physicians, insurance companies and health-care professionals that accredited programs have gone beyond minimum quality levels and have met the industry’s highest nationally recognized standards of excellence. Due to this recognition of quality service, the federal government recognizes CHAP accredited organizations as meeting Federal standards of quality and performance and therefore certified to provide care to Medicare patients.
Founded in 1904, Moorestown Visiting Nurse Association is a non-profit organization that provides homecare, hospice, private duty, counseling and community wellness services to families in Burlington, Camden and Gloucester counties. To learn more call 552–1300, e-mail services@moorestownvna.org, or visit www.moorestownvna.org.
