American Board of Internal Medicine
All of our physicians are board certified (or pending certification if they just finished training) by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology
The American Board of Internal Medicine is the only recognized board in the specialty of internal medicine. The ABIM establishes the requirements for certification and recertification, creates its examinations, strives to improve training, and contributes to setting the standards for internal medicine. The ABIM is an independent, non-profit organization, whose certificate is recognized throughout the world as signifying a high level of physician competence.
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care – AAAHC
The AAAHC is a private, not-for-profit organization that was formed in 1979 to assist ambulatory healthcare organizations in improving the quality of care they provide to their patients. It accomplishes this by setting standards, measuring performance, providing consultation and education where needed, and ultimately by awarding accreditation to those organizations that are found to be in compliance with its standards.
Accreditation is a voluntary process through which an ambulatory healthcare organization is able to measure the quality of its services and performance against nationally recognized standards. The accreditation process involves self-assessment by the organization as well as a thorough review by AAAHC’s expert surveyors who are themselves practicing healthcare professionals.
The standards, published in the Accreditation Handbook for Ambulatory Health Care, describe organizational characteristics that AAAHC believes are essential to high-quality patient care. They relate to such areas as quality of care and quality management and improvement, clinical records, surgical and pharmaceutical services, environmental safety, governance, administration and professional development.
The standards have been developed over a period of more than 20 years by individuals representing the highest levels of achievement in clinical practice and healthcare management. The standards are by definition dynamic and changing as medicine and health care change to reflect the highest levels of care.
