Mission

	Mission

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MISSION

It is the mission of the American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities, Inc. (AAAASF) to develop and implement standards of excellence to ensure the highest quality of patient care through an accreditation program that serves both the medical community and the public interest by establishing a means for measuring medical competence and providing an external source for evaluating patient safety in the ambulatory surgery setting.

To accomplish this mission, AAAASF has the following goals:

To provide the medical community and the public interest with a means of standardizing and improving the quality of medical and surgical care in the ambulatory environment:

To encourage the highest level of competence for medical and surgical care of patients in the ambulatory setting.

To provide a forum for the discussion of new concepts in ambulatory surgery care and a repository of information that can be disseminated to the public and medical community.

To encourage constant improvement in the quality of care provided to patients in the ambulatory surgery setting.

To provide a means of measuring both medical and surgical competence, and ethical conduct, by providing an external source for the evaluation of professional credentialing, patient safety and quality of care.

Medical staff in an accredited facility with possible ethical violations will be referred to the ethics committee of the society for their specialty. They will be evaluated by the AAAASF Investigative Committee whose findings could result in probation, suspension, or revocation of the facility's accreditation by AAAASF.