Neuropsychiatric hospital’s survey results delayed
Hospital seeks to end conditional accreditation
By Donna Wong
Daily Bruin Senior Staff
Although the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital currently remains on
probation, the hospital will have its accreditation status reviewed
by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care
Organizations this March.
Last June, a special unannounced survey by the Chicago-based
commission labeled the neuropsychiatric hospital as a marginally
performing organization and awarded a status of conditional
accreditation.
Although the hospital remains accredited, its status required
the hospital to demonstrate correction of problem areas through a
follow-up survey that occurred Dec. 9, 1994.
If the problem areas have been deemed corrected, UCLA’s
Neuropsychiatric Hospital can have its probation overturned and
return to its original status.
The hospital was previously awarded its accreditation with
recommendations for improvement.
Hospital officials report that the December survey went well,
UCLA spokespersons said.
Before the results of the follow-up survey are known, the joint
commission’s Accreditation Committee must review the findings.
Although the committee planned to discuss this subject in its
first meeting of 1995, the review was postponed until March.
If the accreditation committee does not find satisfactory
improvements, the hospital could remain on probation.
However, the committee would grant the hospital a period of time
to remedy the commission’s concerns and remove the conditional
qualifier from its accreditation.
UCLA will undergo its usual full triennial accreditation survey
in May this year.