From the numerous dialogues that our team had with
healthcare administrators wishing to achieve the coveted NABH accreditation for
their healthcare facilities, we have made a common observation: No one has a
clue about the NABH standards. It’s interesting to note that NABH has just 100
standards with 514 objective elements (these will increase to 636 from July
2012 onwards) or requirements and none of the administrator took the time to train
herself or atleast someone from their team on these standards. The lack of
awareness on the standards is the biggest contributor to the fear that most
administrators have regarding NABH accreditation program.
The fact is that NABH accreditation offers best practices in
healthcare in Indian context and any hospital achieving compliance to its
standards can be assumed to be offering quality healthcare services to its
patients. Any administrator who is interested in establishing strong processes
in her facility would love to go through the NABH standards because it is the
gold standard of healthcare delivery.
The simplest way to implement NABH standards in your
healthcare facility is to create awareness about the standards among your team
of managers and staff. Make everyone realize their role in implementing NABH-compliant
processes and the benefits to them and the patients from these compliances.
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