Accreditation
Hospital Accreditation
Saint Francis Veterinary Center, one of South Jersey’s leading veterinary specialty referral hospitals, is an award-winning facility that is one of only 15% of veterinary hospitals in North America accredited by the American Animal Hospital Association. This means that Saint Francis was evaluated on over 900 categories, ranging from the quality of medicine to our standards of customer service.
Our AAHA accreditation scores, which are among the highest in the nation, include:
- Referral Standards
- 100%
- Pain Management
- 100%
- Contagious Diseases
- 100%
- Client Services
- 100%
- Medical Records
- 98%
- Exam Rooms
- 97%
- Emergency/Critical Care
- 96%
- Patient Care
- 96%
- Surgery
- 95%
- Diagnostic Imaging
- 90%
- Laboratory
- 89%
The AAHA Standards of Accreditation assess care and service in the areas of:
- Anesthesia
- Client Education
- Contagious Disease
- Continuing Care
- Dentistry
- Diagnostic Imaging
- Emergency/Critical Care
- Examination Room
- Housekeeping
- Human Resources
- Laboratory
- Medical Records
- Pain Management
- Patient Care
- Pharmacy
- Practice Leadership
- Referrals
- Safety
- Surgery