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AHAP members receive a 20% discount on all products at HCMarketplace. This site is loaded with accreditation preparation and training tools, and this exclusive all-product discount is available only to AHAP members.

To use your discount, you must enter the discount source code listed on the front of your membership card.

We've hand-picked a few of HCPro's newest releases especially for AHAP members:

The CMS-Joint Commission Crosswalk, 2009 Edition: A side-by-side Analysis of the CMS Conditions of Participation and the Joint Commission Standards
Book/CD. AHAP price: $143.20 (Regular price: $179)

Compare CMS and The Joint Commission requirements with this fully updated resource that will help you determine whether the policies and procedures you have in place to support one standard will gain compliance with the other. In a practical side-by-side table format, this book walks you through each of the CMS Conditions of Participation (COP) and relates them to corresponding Joint Commission Standards and elements of performance for 2009.

The Compliance Guide to the Joint Commission Medical Staff Standards, Sixth Edition
Book. AHAP price: $119.20 (Regular price: $149)

The Joint Commission has made significant changes to its standards for medical staff. Effective January 1, 2009, these changes include a complete renumbering of the credentialing and privileging standards. Since the last edition of The Compliance Guide to the Joint Commission Medical Staff Standards published in 2006, the landscape of Joint Commission standards has changed significantly, due mostly to the new numbering and scoring systems.

Performance Improvement, Fourth Edition: Winning Strategies for Quality and Joint Commission Compliance
Book. AHAP price: $119.20 (Regular price: $149

Performance Improvement, Fourth Edition: Winning Strategies for Quality and Joint Commission Compliance is a book and bonus CD-ROM that emphasizes the 2009 National Patient Safety Goals and other emerging challenges. It also includes new content covering Performance Improvement (PI) tracers, public reporting, and pay-for-performance as it relates to performance improvement.

Practical Guide to Core Measures Improvement
Book. AHAP price: $119.20 (Regular price: $149

Practical Guide to Core Measures Improvement is a book and CD-ROM set, created by a former member of The Joint Commission’s research department, that offers practical methods to help you use Core Measures to achieve noticeable performance improvements at your facility. It shows you how to gather the most useful data and apply it, rather than let your efforts go to waste once the data are reported.

The CMS Hospital Conditions of Participation, (Second Edition)
Book. AHAP price: $39.20 (Regular price: $49) 

Save time navigating the CMS hospital conditions of participation with HCPro's hardcopy book of all the latest requirements. This easy-to-use desktop reference reproduces every regulation, word for word, and includes a detailed table of contents that will save you time. With The CMS Hospital Conditions of Participation book in hand, you'll be free to focus on providing high-quality and safe patient care while ensuring proper reimbursement from Medicare.

Joint Commission Mock Survey Made Simple, 2009 edition
Book/CD. AHAP price: $119.20 (Regular price: $149)

The Joint Commission Mock Survey Made Simple, 2008 edition is fully revised to include all changes to the CAMH standards, NPSGs, and implementation goals for the major changes expected from The Joint Commission. This book and CD-ROM clearly and concisely break down standards into an easy-to-understand mock survey checklist format, and enables survey committee leaders to easily delegate the right forms to the right people.

Performance Improvement Basics, 2nd Edition: A Resource Guide for Healthcare Managers
Book. AHAP price: $79.20 (Regular price: $99)

Implementing an effective performance improvement program is a constant challenge for department managers. That is why we’ve created a second edition of our best-seller, Performance Improvement Basics: A Resource Guide for Healthcare Managers. Whether your goal is to gather buy-in from facility leaders or to brush up on effective data collection and analysis techniques, you need practical, convenient, and useful tools to focus your performance improvement program on meeting the needs of your patients and organization.

The CMS Survey Coordinator's Handbook 
Book. AHAP Price: $119.20 (Regular price: $149)

Everything you need to prepare for the CMS survey process in one concise resource!There is no reason to struggle with CMS requirements. HCPro has teamed up with former contracted CMS surveyor Jeff Coleman to bring you this new and fully updated resource. The CMS Survey Coordinator's Handbook examines all aspects of the CMS hospital survey process and provides the tools and information you'll need to prepare for survey. The CMS Survey Coordinator's Handbook provides real-world compliance tips and a clear understanding of how you cansucceed at CMS surveys.

The Comprehensive Healthcare Job Descriptions Manual: Performance-based solutions to all your staffing needs
CD tool. AHAP price: $399.20 (Regular price: $499)

Turn over to HCPro the tedious and time-consuming task of creating, rewriting, and updating job descriptions. Developed from job descriptions in use today, this tool combines detailed job responsibilities with evaluation criteria and competency assessment measures and delivers them to you in one easy-to-use resource in a flexible CD-ROM format.

Visit HCMarketplace to view all of HCPro's accreditation and training products, and don't forget to provide your discount source code (located on the front of your AHAP membership card) when ordering.