Health Outcomes Accreditation

2026 Health Outcomes and Community-Focused Care Accreditation Survey Readiness Package

Effective for surveys with a start date of July 1, 2026

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Scale What’s Working. Show What Matters.

Healthcare organizations invest significant time and resources to improve the health of their populations. But when data is fragmented, improvement efforts are siloed and outcomes are difficult to measure, it can be hard to know what’s working—or how to scale it.

Health Outcomes Accreditation helps your organization move beyond assumptions and build a repeatable system for measuring, improving and demonstrating impact. Guided by NCQA’s trusted framework, you can align teams around what matters most: better outcomes for the populations you serve.

Make Your Organization’s Mission Actionable

For healthcare organizations, the challenge isn’t committing to person-centered care; it’s figuring out how to implement strategies that show which initiatives are working and how to scale them. Taking a structured approach helps organizations move from isolated initiatives to enterprise-wide, mission-driven performance improvement. Health Outcomes Accreditation provides a framework to help:

• Know your population. Collect standardized demographic data to validate or update assumptions on your population’s needs.
• Measure what matters. Stratify performance measures by populations with known disparities.
• Uncover and address disparities. Identify opportunities to address gaps for targeted populations and improve the appropriateness of care.
• Sustain commitments. Act on and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions, while making data-driven decisions about investment over time.

What Transformation Looks Like

Health Outcomes Accreditation provides a standardized, data-driven system for continuous improvement and accountability. Organizations pursuing Health Outcomes Accreditation are often working to shift:

With a clear framework and shared accountability, organizations can develop a stronger understanding of their population’s unique characteristics to validate that services meet cultural, linguistic and accessibility needs.

Why Health Outcomes Accreditation

A Framework for Continuous Improvement

Health Outcomes Accreditation gives organizations a practical framework to understand populations, measure performance, drive improvement and demonstrate results. With this approach, organizations can:

• Build greater trust with patients, members and communities through measurable, transparent action.
• Stand out in competitive markets by showing a credible commitment to better outcomes.
• Demonstrate the value of investments with reliable data, stratified measures and clear results.
• Sustain progress toward health equity through ongoing monitoring, targeted interventions and accountability.