Professor Named to Healthcare Accreditation Committee
For release: Apr. 28, 2003
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Dr. Cyril F. Chang, professor of economics at the University of Memphis, has been named to the network committee of the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

The standing professional and technical advisory committee provides advice to JCAHO about potential new and revised standards and survey procedures for its accreditation programs.

JCAHO evaluates and accredits nearly 17,000 health care organizations and programs nationwide, including 9,000 hospitals and home care agencies and 8,000 organizations that provide long-term care, assisted living, behavioral health care, and laboratory and ambulatory services.

Chang also is a voluntary professor of economics in the department of preventive medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine.

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