Explaining the accreditation process from the institutional isomorphism perspective: a case study of Jordanian primary healthcare centers

Alyahya, Mohammad S.; Hijazi, Heba; Harvey, Heather

doi:10.1002/hpm.2397

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“…On the basis of the definitions provided in Section 1, and the themes identified in Section 3, the pressures and influences on merger decision‐making for the studied organisations could be interpreted as follows: Regulative pressures: the explicit and external pressures created by changing funding models, growing accountability and compliance requirements and their associated increasing costs, a relatively new devolved model of governance, and the policy environment. Health care organisations, due to their dependency on government funding, have been shown to be particularly vulnerable to coercive pressures; Normative pressures: As norms “specify how things should be done, and define legitimate means to pursue valued ends,” merging CHS could be interpreted as being subjected to 2 contrasting sets of normative pressures. Firstly, changing funding models and a widening range of competitors for resources indirectly imply that, to stay viable, CHS must gain a bigger financial footprint, wider geographical coverage, and greater organisational sophistication in the form of better administrative systems and specialised expertise.…”

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Surviving neoliberalism, maintaining values: Community health mergers in Victoria, Australia

Roussy

Livingstone

2018

Health Planning & Management

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This study offers insights into decision-making processes geared towards protecting the comprehensiveness of PHC service delivery for disadvantaged communities, ensuring financial viability, and surviving neoliberal economic policy whilst preserving communitarian values. These are relevant to an international audience, within a global context of rising health inequities, increasingly tight fiscal environments, and growing neoliberal influences on health policymaking and funding.

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Surviving neoliberalism, maintaining values: Community health mergers in Victoria, Australia

Roussy

Livingstone

2018

Health Planning & Management

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“…Achieving accreditation is also a possible incentive for primary healthcare services to improve their quality [ 32 ], but there are no items on the governmental agenda in that sense so far.…”

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An Incentive-Based Framework for Analyzing the Alignment of Institutional Interventions in the Public Primary Healthcare Sector: The Portuguese Case

Pereira

Marques

2021

Healthcare

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Over the years, the Portuguese National Health Service has undergone several reforms to face the challenges posed by internal and external factors on the access to and quality of its health services. One of its most recent reforms addressed the primary healthcare sector, where understanding the incentives behind the actors of the inherent institutional interventions and how they are aligned with the governing health policies is paramount for reformative success. With the purpose of acknowledging the alignment of the primary healthcare sector’s institutional interventions from an incentive-based perspective, we propose a framework resting on a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis, which was built in cooperation with a panel of decision-making actors from the Portuguese Ministry of Health. In the end, we derive possible policy implications and strategies. This holistic approach highlighted the positive impact of the primary healthcare reform in the upgrade of physical resources and human capital but stressed the geosocial asymmetries and the lack of intra- and inter-sectorial coordination. The proposed framework serves also as a guideline for future primary healthcare reforms, both national- and internationally.

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“…The model of isomorphism is divided into competitive and institutional isomorphism [ 24 ]. There is a competitive aspect to accreditation and affiliation, one supported by a systematic review of the healthcare literature [ 25 ]. In many cases, academic program leadership seek accreditation to maintain a competitive position [ 26 ].…”

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Accreditation and Certification: Do They Improve Hospital Financial and Quality Performance?

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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.

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Explaining the accreditation process from the institutional isomorphism perspective: a case study of Jordanian primary healthcare centers

Cited by 18 publications

References 37 publications

Surviving neoliberalism, maintaining values: Community health mergers in Victoria, Australia

Surviving neoliberalism, maintaining values: Community health mergers in Victoria, Australia

An Incentive-Based Framework for Analyzing the Alignment of Institutional Interventions in the Public Primary Healthcare Sector: The Portuguese Case

Accreditation and Certification: Do They Improve Hospital Financial and Quality Performance?

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