ACCREDITATION
What is accreditation?
- Accreditation is an ongoing process of assessing health and social services organizations against standards of excellence to identify what is being done well and what needs to be improved.
- Accreditation involves all members of your organization, from your board of directors to frontline staff as well as members of the community including patients and families and your community partners. It allows you to understand how to make better use of your resources, increase efficiency, enhance quality and safety, and reduce risk.
- More than 7,000 sites in health care and social services across 5 continents, are experiencing the rewards of working with the standards.
- Accreditation provides with an independent, third-party assessment of your organization using standards built upon best practices used and validated by organizations just like yours around the world.
- Accreditation is necessary to any institution, clinic or organization where patients are treated either as In-Patients or Out Patients that needs to prove that they meet a general standard of quality.
- Accreditation is prescribing a certain internationally accepted set of standards against which an organization is measured.
- The set of accepted standards include
- Patient safety, Staff Safety, construction safety, safety against hazardous material, Fire Safety, Clinical process, Clinical protocols, Clinical pathways, Waste disposal.
How Does Accreditation help
Strengths
- Standardized process
- Less/no Medical errors
- Across all specialities
- Patient experience
- Patient Satisfaction
- Better Reimbursement
- Accountability and responsibility
- Improves efficiency
- Reduces Cost over a period of 3 years*
- Dashboard for Management
