WHAT HAPPENS AFTER OUR SITE VISIT?

Immediately following the site visit, your organisation should do the following:

• First of all, pause for a mument to celebrate your organisation's achievements. The completion of the site visit is a significant milestone in the process. For this reason, it is important to recognise all of the people who have contributed to the accreditation process up to this point.
• Next, take stock of how the site visit went and ask yourself, "In what areas of the standards did we do well? And where did the Peer Team identify areas for improvement?" If your organisation is aware of needed improvements, it is important to continue working on these areas prior to receiving the site visit report.

Upon completion of the site visit, the Team Leader sends completed rating sheets with comments to COA. COA then begins preparing your Pre-Commission Review (PCR) report. The PCR report is an organisation's site visit report and identifies only those standards that require a response and/or improvement/implementation plan (see Related Files) in order for the organisation to achieve accreditation.

On a weekly basis, a special PCR committee comprised of a diverse group of COA's senior staff comes together to review all Peer Team scores and comments. The PCR committee:

• reviews each site visit report for consistency and accuracy;
• contacts the site visit team when there are questions about a rating or reason for non-implementation;
• identifies all core concept standards, fundamental practice standards and/or standards that show patterns of non-implementation that require a response; and
• provides evidence requirements to the organisation regarding how to respond to and correct all of these standards.

Within 30 business days from the last day of the site visit, you will receive a copy of your PCR report. It will be accompanied by a cover letter and instructions for how to prepare the response either in hard copy or electronic format (see Related File for a copy of the PCR Guidelines). You will then have 45 business days to provide a response and submit documentation for review by the Accreditation Commission.

Your COA Coordinator continues to be available to work with you during this time.