definition of accreditation

definition of accreditation Sec. 231. (a) Subsections (c) and (e) of section 843 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 298b) are each amended by striking out “an accredited program” and inserting in lieu thereof “a program”. (b) Subsection (d) of such section is amended by striking out “an accredited two-year program” and inserting in lieu thereof “a two-year program”. (c) Such subsection (c) is further amended by adding before the period at the end thereof (and after the language added by section 205 of this Act)”, but only if such program, or such unit, college, or university is accredited”. (d) Such subsection (d) is further amended by adding before the period at the end thereof “, but only if such program, or such unit, college, or university is accredited”. (e) Such subsection (e) is further amended by adding before the period at the end thereof, but only if such program, or such affiliated school or such hospital or university or such independent school is accredited”. (f) So much of subsection (f) of such section as precedes clause (1) is amended— (1) by inserting “, or by a State agency,” immediately after “accredited by a recognized body or bodies”; (2) by inserting “or State agency” immediately after “such a recognized body or bodies”; (3) by inserting after “Commissioner of Education” the first, time it appears therein “and when applied to a hospital, school, college, or university (or a unit thereof) means a hospital, school, college, or university (or a unit thereof) which is accredited by a recognized body or bodies, or by a State agency, approved for such purpose by the Commissioner of Education”; (4) by striking out “or a program accredited for the purpose of this Act by the Commissioner of Education”; (5) by inserting “, or a hospital, school, college, or university (or a unit thereof),” immediately after “except that a program”; (6) by inserting “, or the hospital, school, college, or university (or a unit thereof),” immediately after “reasonable assurance that the program”; and (7) by striking out “by the school which provides or will provide such program”. (g) Such subsection (f) is further amended by adding at the end thereof the following new sentence: “For the purpose of this paragraph, the Commissioner of Education shall publish a list of recognized accrediting bodies, and of State agencies, which he determines to be reliable authority as to the quality of training offered.”