The France Foundation (TFF) has been awarded Joint Accreditation with Commendation, the highest distinction granted by Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education™. This recognition, which extends TFF's accreditation for six years, is reserved for organizations that demonstrate excellence beyond standard accreditation requirements. Recipients are selected for their advanced efforts related to team-based education, innovation, collaboration, and measurable outcomes as well as their sustained commitment to improving health care through education.

The France Foundation (TFF) has been awarded Joint Accreditation with Commendation, the highest distinction granted by Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Continuing Education™. This recognition, which extends TFF's accreditation for six years, is reserved for organizations that demonstrate excellence beyond standard accreditation requirements. Recipients are selected for their advanced efforts related to team-based education, innovation, collaboration, and measurable outcomes as well as their sustained commitment to improving health care through education.

Health care is largely delivered by teams: physicians, physician associates, advanced practice nurses, nurses, pharmacists, and other health care providers collaborate every day to make complex clinical decisions and improve patient outcomes. Continuing education works alongside that reality, and our team creates learning experiences that, in turn, prepare the entire health care team. This achievement affirms our approach to continuing education that has long been central to our mission: designing education that is collaborative, learner-centered, outcomes-driven, and focused on improving the care provided to patients.

Recognition Built on Innovation and Impact

Joint Accreditation with Commendation recognizes organizations that consistently demonstrate excellence across multiple dimensions of continuing education, exceeding the expectations set as nationally recognized standards. During the accreditation review process, TFF demonstrated excellence in areas that define our educational philosophy, including:

• Partnering with patients as educators and planners to ensure education reflects the lived experiences of those we serve
• Investing in the continuous professional development of our own team, recognizing that learning and innovation begin at home
• Advancing the field through research, outcomes evaluation, and scholarship, sharing what we learn so others can benefit
• Building collaborations with medical professional societies, academic and other health care organizations, and patient advocacy groups to address complex health care challenges that no single organization can solve alone
• Designing education that supports individualized learning plans, helping clinicians identify their own learning needs and pursue meaningful professional growth

In doing all of this, we measure success by what matters most: improving the performance of health care teams and contributing to measurable improvements in health care delivery.

A Reflection of Our People and Partners

Accreditations are awarded to organizations, but they're earned by people. Every educational activity developed by TFF represents the work of educational strategists, project managers, medical writers, interactive and creative teams, outcomes specialists, accreditation and compliance professionals, and others working toward a common goal.

"I'm incredibly proud of our team," says Heather Tarbox, Director of Education and Compliance at TFF. "We're always pushing ourselves to think differently about education, how we can make it more engaging, more meaningful, and ultimately have a real impact on health care teams and their patients. Earning commendation is an exciting recognition of that work and of the passion and creativity our team brings to it every day."

For grant supporters and our partners within medical professional societies, and academic and other health care organizations, Joint Accreditation with Commendation provides independent validation that educational initiatives developed with TFF are built to not only uphold nationally recognized standards of excellence but consistently exceed them. It demonstrates our ability to design education that fosters meaningful collaboration across health care professions, embraces innovative learning strategies, measures outcomes that matter, and continuously evolves to meet the changing needs of clinicians.

As health care continues to become more collaborative and increasingly complex, these qualities are more important than ever. Over the next six years and beyond, TFF will continue investing in innovative educational strategies, strengthening interprofessional learning, expanding meaningful collaborations, and developing education that empowers providers to improve the care being provided to patients.

This recognition belongs to every member of our team, and we share it with every faculty member who has lent their expertise, every collaborator who has trusted us as an educational partner, and every learner who inspires our work.

Together, we're helping shape the future of continuing health care education.