Samaritan has achieved Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education.
The accreditation allows the organization to efficiently offer continuing-education credits for multiple disciplines, including physicians, nurses, pharmacists and social workers. Samaritan is the first hospice organization in the nation to receive the accreditation; only 160 institutions and organizations across the country have done so.
“Samaritan has a long-standing history of providing continuing education to our care-team members, including nurses and social workers,” said president and CEO Phillip W. Heath. “Our commitment to professional growth and development was only reaffirmed when we launched the Boccolini Institute for Education, Research and Innovation in 2020.”
The institute – renamed in honor of former Samaritan President and CEO, Mary Ann Boccolini – provides evidence-based practices and resources for health-care professionals.
The Joint Accreditation was founded in 1988, but has since grown to include 10 accrediting bodies. It offers multiple professions in health care the opportunity to be accredited for continuing-education activities through a single application process; fee structure; and set of standards, streamlining the process.
“Interprofessional continuing education is transforming the health-care system,” said Dr. Sara Pagliaro, Samaritan’s chief medical officer.
With establishment of The Mary Ann Boccolini Institute for Education, Research and Innovation, Samaritan continues to offer a variety of inter-professional continuing education (IPCE) opportunities, including courses on trauma-informed care and inter-disciplinary hospice and palliative care, clinical professional and student rotations and a variety of educational courses to expand professional breadth of knowledge.
For more information, visit www.samaritannj.org.
