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JRCERT Launches New Accreditation Management System (AMS)

AMS
The JRCERT launched its new If, after accessing the Portal Helps,
Accreditation Management Sys- you still need further assistance
tem (AMS) on March 22 with a in answering your question, you
nd
Helpful Hint
broadcast e-mail to program may e-mail our Information
If you are replacing a Program CEO or
directors. Based on feedback Technology Administrator, Paul
from programs, the system is Luhn, at pluhn@jrcert.org. Your Dean (or comparable administrator)
working well! Programs are e-mails will be responded to in a through the AMS portal, use the Pro-
reminded to refer to the Portal timely manner to help resolve gram Official Change Request option.
Helps available on the JRCERT your portal issue. Make sure to click on the “New” icon,
Web site home page (upper as you are creating a different Contact.
We appreciate your feedback on
right corner) to access instruc- If you are merely updating some of the
the new AMS.
tional videos to help give you a individual’s information, such as address
working knowledge of the AMS.  Watch for AMS Portal “Tip or credentials, use the “Edit” icon.
The Portal Helps also include a of The Week” broadcast e-
mails . . . coming soon!
continually updated listing of
frequently asked questions  Some programs apparently receiving these broadcast e-mails,
(FAQs) along with helpful, are not receiving broadcast please contact your IT department
e-mails from the JRCERT. If to check firewalls or other possi-
straightforward answers. you believe you are not ble obstacles.

JRCERT Approves Another Agency to Accredit Program Clinical Settings

Center for Improvement in Healthcare  American College of Radiology
Quality (CIHQ). CIHQ, established in (ACR)
1999, is a membership-based organiza-  American College of Radiation
tion comprised primarily of acute care Oncology (ACRO)
and critical access hospitals. For fur-  Accreditation Association for
ther information regarding CIHQ, Ambulatory Health Care, Inc.
(AAAHC)
please see their Web site at
Consistent with JRCERT 
Standards, clinical settings must be http://www.cihq.org/ Center for Improvement in
hospital_accreditation_division.asp Healthcare Quality (CIHQ)
accredited to assure compliance
with applicable laws that promote The current listing of JRCERT-
safe environments for students approved clinical setting accreditors is Note:
and others. The JRCERT Board, as follows: Documentation of a state-issued
at its April Meeting, approved an  The Joint Commission (TJC) license is also acceptable.
additional agency that will be
acceptable as an accreditor of  DNV Healthcare, Inc.
clinical settings utilized by our  Healthcare Facilities Accreditation
programs. The agency is the Program (HFAP)