| Certification Mark Statement | The certification mark is used by individuals and organizations to certify that they have met the certifier’s established standards for healthcare-facility access level, competency verification, regulatory compliance, training, health clearance, and professional conduct. Certification includes requirements aligned with CMS Conditions of Participation (CoP); Joint Commission standards; DNV accreditation requirements; FDA regulations and guidance; OSHA, CDC, and HIPAA requirements; state and local Department of Public Health and Department of Consumer Protection rules; and other relevant federal, state, local, or accrediting-body expectations governing access to or work within healthcare facilities. These standards are defined solely by the certifier, which retains exclusive authority to update, revise, expand, or modify requirements at its discretion in response to regulatory, accreditation, technological, or industry changes.The certification mark represents a voluntary standard that may be adopted by healthcare facilities to support their regulatory, accreditation, and internal-policy obligations to verify the competency, health clearance, and compliance of suppliers, vendors, contractors, and other non-hospital personnel. The certifier is an independent standards-setting and certification body and is not a government agency nor acting on behalf of CMS, The Joint Commission, DNV, the FDA, or any federal, state, or local regulator.The certification mark may be used only by individuals and organizations expressly authorized by the certifier, and solely to signify compliance with the certifier’s tiered healthcare-access system. The mark may not be used to indicate compliance with alternative programs, nor may it be replicated, mirrored, approximated, reformatted, color-modified, sublicensed, or used to create confusingly similar access tiers or badge systems. Vendor credentialing organizations, suppliers, contractors, educational entities, and access-management platforms may not create, imply, or confer certification through any access badge, icon, clearance designation, or tier-based system without explicit written authorization from the certifier. Any unauthorized use constitutes misrepresentation and is grounds for enforcement.The certification mark may be used in connection with physical or digital badges, including badges embedded with or linked to competency-verification systems; educational transcripts; digital transcripts; registrar or registry records; training records; learning-record stores (LRS); digital credentials; verifiable credentials; credential wallets; portable transcripts; blockchain-based identities; QR-based access systems; HL7/FHIR-interoperable identity platforms; distributed-ledger credentials; APIs; databases; background-check systems; criminal-history and exclusion-list screening platforms; and systems used to document, verify, or transmit health records, immunization requirements, vaccination status, infectious-disease testing, mask-fit testing, physical-examination or medical-clearance documentation, or any present or future technologies used to validate compliance with the certifier’s standards.Certified parties must satisfy training, education, competency, safety-practice, regulatory, and health-clearance expectations appropriate to their designated access tier, including adherence to hospital policies; accreditation-body standards; applicable state and federal rules; infection-prevention and immunization requirements; patient-safety protocols; privacy and confidentiality obligations; and scope-of-practice restrictions determined by the facility. Certification is granted only to parties who have completed the certifier’s required assessment, education, documentation, or validation process and demonstrated compliance with all required standards. The certifier retains the exclusive right to evaluate applicants, to refuse certification when standards are not met, and to determine whether an individual or organization satisfies the certification requirements. Certification requires verification of identity, background-check clearance, required health and immunization documentation, and compliance with all applicable access requirements. The certifier verifies compliance based on documentation provided by the certified individual or by credentialing organizations acting under license; the certifier does not store or retain protected health information.The certifier retains the right to audit certified parties or licensees for compliance at any time and may refuse, suspend, or revoke certification for non-compliance, falsified or incomplete documentation, failed background or health-clearance checks, violation of hospital policies, misconduct, misuse or misrepresentation of the mark, unauthorized replication, or failure to maintain any component of the certifier’s standards. |
