The Accrediting Bureau of Health Education Schools (ABHES) specializes in health education institutions and allied-health programs — including medical assisting, medical laboratory, and related fields. ABHES offers both institutional and programmatic accreditation.
Who ABHES is for
ABHES is the natural choice for schools focused on health and allied-health education. If your programs prepare students for clinical and healthcare-support careers, a health-specialized accreditor understands your curricula, externships, and credentialing requirements better than a generalist.
What ABHES evaluates
ABHES standards emphasize program outcomes, clinical and externship components, faculty credentials specific to health fields, and student credentialing or licensure pass rates. Documentation of clinical hours and supervised experience receives close attention.
How Cole Middleton Advisors helps with ABHES accreditation
We support institutions through the full ABHES lifecycle — eligibility and application, self-study development, evidence preparation, mock site visits, and reaffirmation. Our work aligns your policies, practice, curriculum, and records so that what you claim is what a visiting team can verify on demand.
- Eligibility review and application strategy
- Self-study writing aligned to the standards
- Evidence organization across student files, faculty, and outcomes
- Mock reviews and site-visit readiness
- Reaffirmation, substantive change, and findings remediation
Considering ABHES accreditation, or unsure which accreditor fits your school? We can help you decide and prepare.