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Roxborough Urgent Care awarded reaccreditation from National Urgent Care Center Accreditation
Philadelphia, PA- 6/24/2021– Roxborough Urgent Care of Roxborough Memorial Hospital has earned reaccreditation from National Urgent Care Center Accreditation (NUCCA) demonstrating continuous compliance with its performance standards. The NUCCA is a symbol of quality that reflects a health care organization’s commitment to providing safe and high-quality care.
Roxborough Urgent Care underwent a rigorous onsite review on June 16, 2021. During the visit, a reviewer from the National Urgent Care Center evaluated compliance standards spanning several areas including reasonable medical practice’s compliance with applicable standards, policies and procedures, rights of patients, administration, quality of care provided, quality management and improvement, clinical records and health information, facilities and environment, immediate/urgent care services, pharmaceutical services, pathology and medical laboratory services, diagnostic imaging services, employee and occupational health services, and health education and wellness.
The NUCCA process is based on standards similar to those used byJoint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) and Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC). The NUCCA has been able to refine previously proven survey criteria and methods and have created a separate program of accreditation that is more streamlined, emphasizing the most important elements of quality for urgent care providers and facilities.
Once successfully completed, the accreditation is to symbolize – to patients, payers, and colleagues – the highest level of commitment to one’s patients and the practice of urgent care medicine.
“We choose to pursue reaccreditation with the NUCCA because Roxborough Memorial Hospital has some of the highest quality awards for care and safety. We wanted our urgent care center to meet the same standards for care,” said Dorothy Patzek, chief operations officer of Suburban Community Hospital Ambulatory Networks of Prime Healthcare Pennsylvania Region.
With more urgent care centers filling the gap between primary care and emergency departments by offering increased convenience and cost savings, the reaccreditation ensures providers offer safe, quality urgent care services.
Patzek added, “Receiving the reaccreditation is an honor. It means that Roxborough’s Urgent Care is operating at the highest of standards.”
This is just one of many quality and safety awards Roxborough Memorial Hospital has earned for healthcare services. Roxborough Memorial Hospital’s high-quality care has received national recognition for cardiac, stroke, and patient safety.
For more information, please visit https://roxboroughmemorial.com/~/our-services/urgent-care/
About Roxborough Memorial Hospital- Roxborough Memorial Hospital is a 131-bed community hospital. The hospital has been serving the medical and health care needs of the Roxborough, Manayunk, East Falls and northwest section of Philadelphia communities for more than a century, having first opened its doors in 1890. Roxborough Memorial Hospitals School of Nursing has been educating nurses since 1898. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency. As part of Prime Healthcare Services, headquartered in Ontario, California, Roxborough Memorial Hospital is focused on becoming one of the leaders in technology. Prime Healthcare is an award-winning hospital management company operating 45 acute care hospitals in 14 states, including Roxborough Memorial Hospital in Philadelphia, Suburban Community Hospital in Montgomery County, and Lower Bucks Hospital in Bucks County.
About Prime Healthcare and Prime Healthcare Foundation: Prime Healthcare is an award-winning health system operating 45 hospitals and more than 300 outpatient locations in 14 states, providing over 2.6 million patient visits annually. It is one of the nation’s leading health systems with nearly 50,000 employees and physicians dedicated to providing the highest quality healthcare. Fourteen of the Prime Healthcare hospitals are members of the Prime Healthcare Foundation, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit public charity. Based in Ontario, California, Prime Healthcare is nationally recognized for award-winning quality care and has been named a Top 10 and Top 15 Health System by IBM Watson Health. Its hospitals have been named among the nation’s “100 Top Hospitals” 58 times and have received more Patient Safety Excellence Awards from Healthgrades than any other health system in the past six years. To learn more, please visit www.primehealthcare.com.