An appeal of an Accreditation Award is appropriate when the program had complied with the standard at the time of survey.

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Appeals are designed to re-evaluate an accreditation decision when there is evidence that the standard was met at the time of the survey, or when the survey team may have misinterpreted or overlooked information that existed then. If the program had actually complied with the standard during the survey, the appeal can focus on clarifying or correcting how that evidence was evaluated, rather than introducing new information from after the survey. That means post-survey changes or new documentation created after the survey generally aren’t the basis for overturning the decision; they might support a future cycle but don’t retroactively change the survey outcome.