Membership Types
Membership to ACQA is provided at 3 different levels:
Individual members are people with a direct interest in improving quality in aged care, particularly through the establishment of comprehensive quality programs and benchmarking.
Individual members are entitled to attend the networking meetings and are able to access the agendas and minutes via the ACQA website. They also get access to a control panel (example on right) on the website which enables them to better manage their experience here by setting their individual notification requirements, bookmarks, view the sitemap and change their password.
Associate Members are organisations who are interested in pursuing the improvement of quality in aged care.
In addition to the benefits Individual Members receive, Associate Members are also able to share in the organisation resource area of the website. Here, organisations are able to share files, programs, forms, policies and have access to the ACQA guidelines. (See expanded menu available to them below). Associate Members are also able to advertise Upcoming Events on the ACQA Website.
Associate and Organisation Members have a more extensive Resources Menu
Organisation Members are full members of the Association. These are organisations who have made a full commitment to improving the care of residents in aged care. As well as the benefits enjoyed by Individual and Associate Members, Organisation Members participate in the Aged Care Quality Benchmarking Program. This provides them with the ability to undertake benchmarking external to their organisations, but comparing themselves to like organisations using standard data collection and interpretation methodology.
Organisations complete a rotation of 10 System Audits and 4 Quality Indicators each year and have access to Compliments and Complaints Registers. Combined, they give an indication of achievement across all 44 of the Aged Care Standards.
