Brooks Matthew, Beauvais Brad M, Kruse Clemens Scott, Fulton Lawrence, Mileski Michael, Ramamonjiarivelo Zo, Shanmugam Ramalingam, Lieneck Cristian
School of Health Administration, Texas State University, Encino Hall, Room 250A, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, TX 78666, USA.
Healthcare (Basel). 2021 Jul 14;9(7):887. doi: 10.3390/healthcare9070887.
The relationship between healthcare organizational accreditation and their leaders' professional certification in healthcare management is of specific interest to institutions of higher education and individuals in the healthcare management field. Since academic program accreditation is one piece of evidence of high-quality education, and since professional certification is an attestation to the knowledge, skills, and abilities of those who are certified, we expect alumni who graduated from accredited programs and obtained professional certification to have a positive impact on the organizations that they lead, compared with alumni who did not graduate from accredited programs and who did not obtain professional certification. The authors' analysis examined the impact of hiring graduates from higher education programs that held external accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education (CAHME). Graduates' affiliation with the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE) professional healthcare leadership organization was also assessed as an independent variable. Study outcomes focused on these graduates' respective healthcare organization's performance measures (cost, quality, and access) to assess the researchers' inquiry into the perceived value of a CAHME-accredited graduate degree in healthcare administration and a professional ACHE affiliation. The results from this study found no effect of CAHME accreditation or ACHE affiliation on healthcare organization performance outcomes. The study findings support the need for future research surrounding healthcare administration professional graduate degree program characteristics and leader development affiliations, as perceived by various industry stakeholders.
医疗保健机构认证与其领导者在医疗保健管理方面的专业认证之间的关系，受到高等教育机构和医疗保健管理领域个人的特别关注。由于学术项目认证是高质量教育的一项证据，且专业认证是对获得认证者的知识、技能和能力的一种证明，因此我们预计，与未毕业于认证项目且未获得专业认证的校友相比，毕业于认证项目并获得专业认证的校友，会对他们所领导的组织产生积极影响。作者的分析考察了聘用毕业于获得医疗保健管理教育认证委员会（CAHME）外部认证的高等教育项目的毕业生所产生的影响。毕业生与美国医疗保健高管学院（ACHE）专业医疗保健领导组织的隶属关系，也作为一个自变量进行了评估。研究结果聚焦于这些毕业生各自所在医疗保健组织的绩效指标（成本、质量和可及性），以评估研究人员对CAHME认证的医疗保健管理研究生学位以及ACHE专业隶属关系的感知价值的探究。这项研究的结果发现，CAHME认证或ACHE隶属关系对医疗保健组织的绩效结果没有影响。研究结果支持未来围绕医疗保健管理专业研究生学位项目特征和领导者发展隶属关系开展研究的必要性，这是各类行业利益相关者所认为的。
