Cook Children's Health Care System, Fort Worth, Texas

Transport Services earns accreditation from CAMTS

Cook Children’s became one of only five pediatric neonatal transport teams accredited worldwide from the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Transport Services.

The Transport department at Cook Children’s provides the highest quality of care for children in the hospital’s service area. CAMTS is an organization of non-profit organizations dedicated to improving the quality and safety of medical transport services. In order to obtain accreditation, a medical transport service must be in substantial compliance with the Accreditation Standards.

Jack Sosebee, director of Transport Services at Cook Children’s, said feedback can only help his department, especially from a group with the training and specialization of the surveyors from CAMTS. He said the accreditation gives a good comparison of what Cook Children’s is doing compared to other transport teams throughout the United States.

"The survey points out that we have reached the national standards of what it takes to be a successful Transport program,” Sosebee said. “It’s important to have someone from the outside look at your department. The inspection shows you a good comparison of what you’re doing compared to other transport systems.”

Transport earned full accreditation, meaning Cook Children’s demonstrated substantial compliance with the accreditation standards. Full accreditation is granted for three years. Cook Children’s is one of only five pediatric neonatal transport teams accredited worldwide.

In a letter informing Cook Children’s it had earned accreditation, among the areas CAMTS highlighted for Transport were the commitment to safety and competency based orientation programs.

The survey lasted three days, but Sosebee said Transport spent more than a year in preparation for the survey.

“Earning CAMTS accreditation for transport is similar to achieving Magnet status or earning Joint Commission accreditation,” Sosebee said. “It is along those same lines for us. All of those things are about meeting a national standard.”

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