Our Accreditation | Upper Peninsula Home Health, Hospice and Private Duty

We are the only agency in the area accredited by the Community Health Accreditation Program (CHAP)... the nation's gold standard for home-based skilled care. In fact, we are CHAP accredited for both home health and hospice! CHAP professionals, from their corporate offices in Washington DC, make regular, unannounced site visits and require extensive self-evaluation, ensuring standards higher than those set by the federal Medicare Program or any other national accreditation body. Our founder, Cynthia Nyquist, has served as a senior site visitor for CHAP, auditing other home health and Hospice programs across the nation. Her experiences ensure up-to-date standards of practice for the U.P. community. We were the first provider of Hospice Philisophical Care in Michigan in 1973, and one of the first 3 in the Nation.

From the CHAP website:

The Community Health Accreditation Program, Inc. (CHAP) is an independent, non-profit accrediting body. CHAP was granted “deeming authority” by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in 1992 for home health and in 1999, for hospice. This means that instead of state surveys, CHAP has regulatory authorization to survey agencies providing home health and hospice services, to determine whether they meet the Medicare Conditions of Participation (COPs). In 2006, CMS granted CHAP full deeming authority for Home Medical Equipment (HME).

Purpose

To objectively validate the excellence of community health care practice through consistent measurement of the delivery of quality services

To motivate providers to achieve continuous improvement by adhering to standards of excellence
To assist the public in the selection of community health services and providers with demonstrated excellence
To lead by example through organizational excellence and quality performance