Role of an organization's MIPPA-approved accreditation body in the evaluation of an institution's quality improvement and risk management processes.

The Congress passed the "Medicare Improvements for Patients and Provider Act (MIPPA)" in the year 2008, which was an extensive piece of legislation that entailed the provisions to strengthen Medicare for low-income beneficiaries, reduce ethnic or racial disparities among Medicare patients, and raise the accountability measured for Medicare Advantage programs, among several other provisions (American Nephrology Nurses’ Association, 2015). Moreover, the American College of Radiology (ACR), Joint Commission (JC) and Inter-societal Accreditation Commission (ACR) are some of the bodies accredited by the MIPPA. These bodies also play a substantial role when it comes to quality improvement and the assessment of risks and threats through risk management. One of the main roles of the accreditation bodies is to resolve the nursing shortage by assuring that there is appropriate funding to address the shortage of nursing faculty and the availability of nursing mentors for new nursing graduates and nurse with less practical experience (American Nephrology Nurses’ Association, 2015). This idea will make sure that more nurses are trained and those with less experience receive mentors, which in turn uphold patient safety within the healthcare organization (Friend & Kohn, 2018). 

Further, the MIPPA accredited bodies in my organization are responsible for ensuring continued support for educational programs for the healthcare professionals, thus addressing the shortage of nursing professionals through appropriate identification of potential nursing graduates. Another role of the MIPPA accredited bodies is to support the interdisciplinary approach to health care and ensuring that registered nurses must be major participants in the planning, delivery, and evaluation of that care to ensure patient safety (American Nephrology Nurses’ Association, 2015). Lastly, the MIPPA accredited bodies are also tasked with the role of setting and updating standards of patient care, educating practitioners, stimulating research and disseminating findings, promoting interdisciplinary communication and cooperation, and addressing issues that may affect the practice of nursing professionals (American Nephrology Nurses’ Association, 2015). This role performed by MIPPA accredited bodies will enhance decision making and problem identification within the organization, which consequently improves the quality of the services provided.