Home Health
As the first accrediting body in home healthcare, CHAP is the recognized leader in Home Health Accreditation, with more Medicare-certified home health providers than any other accrediting body recognized by CMS.
CHAP’s guidance, education, and resources are crucial to providers as they deliver the best patient care.
Top 10 Home Health Deficiencies
And tips for remaining compliant
G-tags are built in to make the standards themselves easy to cross reference to CMS regulations or state operations manuals. Clear Evidence Guidelines tell you how the CHAP site visitor is going to evaluate compliance, giving you peace of mind.
Telehealth and remote monitoring are included in the standards, without an add-on expense, enabling you to set up your program accordingly.
Our standards and site visits focus on patient care and the connection to the Conditions of Participation. Unlike other standards – they start at patient care, and work towards policies and procedures. You can expect an educational and collaborative survey experience.
When you submit readiness, we host a Final Readiness Call for your organization helping you prepare with confidence. We will walk through your readiness checklist to lower your stress and create a great survey experience.
Deemed or Non-Deemed, the choice is yours.
CHAP holds deeming authority from CMS, allowing its surveys to substitute for federal and state inspections, making accredited agencies eligible for Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement where applicable.
Your CHAP Team
Accreditation Specialist
The Accreditation Specialist delivers timely and responsive customer support to organizations seeking initial and continuing accreditation.
Director of Accreditation
The Director of Accreditation is responsible for ensuring consistent application of accreditation standards, Site Visitor selection and retention, and the satisfaction of our accredited organizations.
Site Visitors
Our team of experienced site visitors plans, organizes, coordinates, and conducts the accreditation site visit in accordance with CMS-approved CHAP policies and procedures governing the accreditation process.
Four Step Process
The better the accreditation process, the faster you can continue the level of care that is so important to your mission. We strive to minimize the disruption and streamline the preparation so you can focus on what matters most.
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Accreditation Determination
Agencies receive their approved accreditation or plan of correction
Earn an Age-Friendly Care at Home Certification with your Accreditation
Impact clinician satisfaction and retention, reduce cost of care, and align with quality referral sources without a costly investment.
1. When applying for accreditation, select the box for age-friendly care. There is no cost for adding your age-friendly care certification to your accreditation.
2. Review the resources, standards, and learning modules. (The learning modules can be downloaded and used in your company’s LMS free of charge.)
3. As part of your site visit for accreditation, you will be inspected for executing the 4 M’s framework of Age-Friendly Health Systems and the eight additional CHAP Age-Friendly Standards.
4. Use your Credly Age-friendly Digital Badge and Certificate to market your Certification and connect with over 2,900 health systems.
Earn a Pediatric Care Certification with your Accreditation
Enhance pediatric care quality, elevate clinician satisfaction, and secure quality referral sources without incurring additional costs.
1. When applying for accreditation, select the box for pediatric care. There is no cost for adding your pediatric care certification to your accreditation.
2. Review the resources and standards.
3. As part of your site visit for accreditation, you will be inspected for executing the pediatric care standards.
4. Use your Pediatric Care Digital Badge and Certificate to market your Certification and connect with healthcare systems.
Home Health Resources
CHAP Releases Home Health Standards and Resources for Age-Friendly Care
Home Health Document Request List
Home Health Agency Survey and Deficiency Report
Top 10 Home Health Deficiencies
Subpart F—Surety Bond Requirements
Quality in Focus Resources for Addressing HHA Incomplete Individualized Plan of Care Citations
Emergency Preparedness Basic Training
Enforcement Process for Home Health Agency and Hospice Programs
Universal Infection Prevention and Control