Hospital/Clinic Accreditation is a public recognition by a National Healthcare Accreditation Body, of the achievement of accreditation standards by a Healthcare Organization, demonstrated through an independent external peer assessment of that organization’s level of performance in relation to the standards.
Benefits of Accreditation
Benefits for Patients
Patients are the biggest beneficiary among all the stakeholders. Accreditation results in high quality of care and patient safety. The patients are serviced by credential medical staff. Rights of patients are respected and protected. Patients satisfaction is regularly evaluated.
Benefits for Homeopathy Hospitals
Accreditation to an Homeopathy hospital stimulates continuous improvement. It enables hospital in demonstrating commitment to quality care. It raises community confidence in the services provided by the Homeopathy hospital. It also provides opportunity to healthcare unit to benchmark with the best.
Benefits for Hospital Staff
The staff in an accredited Homeopathy hospital is satisfied lot as it provides for continuous learning, good working environment, leadership and above all ownership of clinical processes. It improves overall professional development of Clinicians and Para Medical Staff and provides leadership for quality improvement with medicine and nursing.
Accreditation Program for AYUSH (Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Unani, Siddha and Yoga & Naturopathy) Hospitals, is rum in association with Department of AYUSH, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.
It consists of two kinds of standards – Accreditation Standards and Structural Standards. Accreditation standards are based on three components- structure, process and outcome. These standards measure the quality and safety aspects of the care delivered to the patients. Structural standards which are basically deals with infrastructural requirements to help the organisations to deliver quality of care. For each speciality i.e Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Unani, Siddha. Yoga and Naturopathy we have separate Accreditation and Structural Standards as per their individual system of medicine and requirements.
Accreditation of Homeopathy Hospitals
- General Information Brochure
- Application Form
- Terms and Conditions for maintaining NABH Accreditation
- Self Assessment Toolkit
- Pre-Assessment Guidelines and Forms
- Policy and Guidelines for use of NABH Accreditation Mark
- Procedure on Handling of Complaints & Appeals
- NABH Policies and Procedures for Dealing with Adverse and Other Decisions
- Policies & Procedures for Assessment, Surveillance and Re-Assessment of HCO
More details at : http://www.nabh.co/documents_Homeopathy.aspx
More awareness of such projects would enhance the quality of Health care