Are you concerned whether your services are aligned with student needs?
Do you want to ensure the use of appropriate standards at your health service?
Are you considering staff or funding changes?
Do you want to know if your college health program is aligned with comparable institutions?
ACHA's Consultation Services can assist you with these issues by delivering an objective, peer review of your college health program by experts immersed in the field. You set the objectives that determine how in-depth the consultation will be.
ACHA's Consultation Services is the perfect choice if you want to examine:
- Funding sources, generating revenue, and/or creating a business plan
- Articulating how health and student health services support the institutional learning mission
- Planning facilities, size, layout, location, construction, and renovation
- Complying with HIPAA and HITECH regulations
- Involving students in the organization, including consumerism, peer education, and policy
- Evaluating the effect of services on student learning outcomes
- Building quality teams of various fields (psychology, medicine, nursing, health promotion, etc.)
- Implementing user and/or non-user satisfaction surveys
- Creating marketing and public relations plans
- Assessing standards of care for clinical practice and ancillary services (e.g., preparing for AAAHC or Joint Commission pre-accreditation reviews, or preparing for a CAS self-assessment of clinical, health promotion, counseling, and/or alcohol, tobacco, and other drug services)
Need more information? Contact Robert L. Ward at the ACHA National Office at (410) 859-1500, ext. 212, or rlward@acha.org.
Who are ACHA's consultants?
Your colleagues. ACHA consultants are innovative, forward-thinking professionals with previous extensive experience, including consulting or accreditation surveying experience. Consultants are also provided with relevant background materials to further prepare them in providing you with an objective and informed consultation report.
Interested in becoming an ACHA consultant?
Email Robert L. Ward at rlward@acha.org and ask for an ACHA Consultant Profile form. To be considered for engagement as an ACHA consultant, you must be a current regular or emeritus ACHA individual member and should optimally have at least 10 years of college health experience at a director/managerial level.
