Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Management Education

Accreditation:1. Servicing universities and programs in a voluntary peer review process designed to continuously improve academic education at the graduate level healthcare management education. At the end of FY 2024, CAHME accredited 150 programs at 98 universities, representing 7,821 full-time and 2,878 part-time students. CAHME facilitated approximately 78 volunteers in conducting and reviewing 25 site visits during the current year.2. Establishing criteria for accreditation and tools for measuring excellence at the graduate level of healthcare management education. CAHME's volunteers reviewed and revised the existing criteria to reflect the diversity of practice settings that embrace healthcare management and require flexibility in the application of competency measurement and by extension student outcomes. 3. Making the findings of CAHME's activities available to the public.

CAHME Awards Program:The mission of the CAHME Awards Program is to recognize excellence in graduate healthcare management education within CAHME accredited programs in partnership with other health-sector organizations. The award program enhances CAHME's positive influence on graduate programs in healthcare management education by publicizing excellence in the trade press and at professional conferences, via social media, and through our website. This increases the profession's awareness and importance of CAHME, exposes prospective students to quality accredited programs, and incentivizes programs to continuously improve their quality. At the end fo FY 2024, CAHME presented two awards: The CAHME-Canon Award for Sustainability and the CAHME-George and Regi Herzlinger Innovation Education Award.