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Show IKIospittal South Davis Community Hospital has been honored with a certificate of recognition recogni-tion by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH) during National Hospital Hos-pital Week. The certificate, signed by John D. Porter-field, Porter-field, M.D., Director of the Joint Commission, reads as follows: "DURING THIS National Hospital Week, May 11 through May 17, 1975, the Joint Commission takes special pleasure in recognizing recogniz-ing your continuing commitment commit-ment to the quality of patient care through voluntary accreditation. We proudly salute you as one of nearly 4800 accredited hospitals in the Nation who have chosen to strive to deliver the optimum in health service to the community." ACCREDITATION indicates in-dicates that a facility has chosen to perform within professionally developed standards of the JCAH and that the facility has substantially substan-tially complied with these standards. The standards, published as the Accreditation Manual for Hospitals, set forth optimal achievable goals of excellence against which a facility can measure itself and be measured in turn by the Joint Commission's survey. THE JCAH'S accreditation surveys are voluntary. Facilities have sought accreditation in furtherance of their pursuit of excellence and a higher quality of care. The Joint Commission began in 1918 under the auspices aus-pices of the American College of Surgeons. It was incorporated incor-porated in 1951 with the support sup-port of its present member organizations: THE AMERICAN College of Surgeons, the American College of Physicians, the American Hospital Association, Associa-tion, and the American Medical Association. JCAH is a Chicago-based, non-governmental, not-for-profit organization. In addition addi-tion to hospitals, it has programs for the accreditation accredita-tion of long term care facilities, facili-ties, psychiatric facilities, ' and facilities for the mentally retarded. ACCORDING to William P. ' Moore, administrator, the ' South Davis Community Hospital Hos-pital received accreditation when the hospital was first surveyed in 1962 and has been fully accredited since that time. |