Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency Ltd

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Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency Ltd
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Accreditation Overview

• The goals of this session
• To enhance understanding about accreditation and
  the aged care standards.

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Accreditation Overview

• In this session, we will cover
• Role of the Aged Care Standards and Accreditation
  Agency Ltd
• Legislation
• Responsibilities of Approved Providers
• Types of assessments conducted by the Agency
• The Accreditation Standards 44 expected
  outcomes
• The accreditation process
• Decision-making

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The role of the Agency

• Manage the accreditation process using the
  Accreditation Standards
• Promote high quality care and assist industry to
  improve service quality by identifying best
  practice, and provide information, education and
  training
• Assess and manage services working towards
  accreditation
• Liaise with the Department of Health and Ageing
  about services that do not comply with the
  Accreditation Standards

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The Legislation

• Accreditation Grant Principles 1999
• Accountability Principles 1998
• Quality of Care Principles 1997
• User Rights Principles 1997

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Approved Provider responsibilities

• Approved Providers must ensure the home meets
  the requirements in relation to
• The Accreditation Standards
• Continuous improvement
• Monitoring performance
• Certification (building requirements)
• Prudential arrangements (residents bond money)
• Concessional resident ratio (residents unable to
  pay)
• User Rights Principles (resident rights)

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Accreditation

• Purpose and types of assessments
• Desk Audit
• Accreditation Audit
• Support Contact
• Review Audit

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Accreditation
Standard 1 Management Systems, Staffing and
Organisational Development
Standard 2 Health and Personal Care
Standard 3 Resident Lifestyle
Standard 4 Physical Environment Safe Systems
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Expected outcomes

• 2.16 Sensory loss
• 3.5 Independence
• 3.7 Leisure interests and activities
• 3.8 Cultural and spiritual life
• 3.9 Choice and decision making

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Rating the Expected Outcomes

• Each Expected Outcome is given a rating
• Does comply
• Does not comply

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Evidence gathering process

• Collecting information via
• Interviews
• Residents, staff, management, visitors to the
  home
• Document review
• To assess what the service says they do, what it
  does and the results it gets
• Observation
• Review practices, assess the living environment

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Decision-making process

• Team prepares a site audit report
• Team makes a recommendation
• Decision is made by the Agency decision-maker
• Approved Provider is notified
• Department of Health Ageing notified of
  non-compliance
• Report and decision is published on the agency
  web site www.accreditation.org.au

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Periods of Accreditation

• A service can be accredited for a period of up to
  three years depending on the level of compliance
• Services may be accredited with a level of non
  compliance
• Periods of accreditation can be reduced

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Ongoing Agency contact with accredited homes

• Support contacts (with or without notice)
• Review audits (review of services accreditation
  period)
• Education

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Conclusion

• Find out more
• Aged Care Standards and Accreditation Agency
  website www.accreditation.org.au
• Quality of Care Principles 1997

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