Standards for Accreditation in Health
Accreditation Standards in Health are structured in accordance with the principles of minimum risk, optimal quality, maximum safety in the field of health in the field of patient safety, quality improvement, patient and service user focus, organizational planning and performance of the World Health Organization and ISQua.
Accreditation Standards in Health-Hospital aims primarily to establish success targets for meeting the standards in hospitals.
Objectives of Accreditation Standards in Health
Accreditation Standards in Health, WHO Patient Safety Goals, the principles of The International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua), accreditation programs implemented around the world and our country's needs and priorities have been established to achieve quality objectives in order to ensure quality in hospitals.
Structure of the Hospital Set of Accreditation Standards in Health
The Health Accreditation Standards include 7 Dimensions, 34 Chapters, 59 Standards, 242 evaluation criteria. The SAS Hospital Set consists of Standards, Assessment Measures and related guidelines. The guidelines set out the objectives, objectives and standard requirements of the standards. The standard, evaluation criteria and related guidelines should be considered and applied together as a whole. The following 7 dimensions are included in the Health Accreditation Standards:
- Management and organization
- Performance Scale and Quality Improvement
- Healthy Work Environment
- The experience of the sick
- Health services
- Support services
- Emergency Management
General purpose and scope of dimensions
The dimensions contained in the Accreditation Standards in Health are defined to cover all parts of the hospital based on services provided in hospitals, management activities and persons involved in the service process.
- Management and organization
The aim is to create a management structure at the management and organizational level, ensuring continuity in the operation of the hospital and ensuring the systematic conduct of work activities, together with an effective institutional quality management structure involving senior management and all employees.
In order to achieve this goal, a hospital organizational structure must be created, basic policies and values must be established, a quality management structure must be created, document management must be provided, a safety reporting system must be established, risk management and education management must be provided, work must be done to promote and improve health, institutional communication must be provided.
- Performance Scale and Quality Improvement
Interventions aimed at improving quality and timely identification of possible problems with the provision of services, including administrative, financial and medical processes. These objectives are to be achieved through the use of institutionally defined indicators and SAS indicators.
- Healthy Work Environment
In this dimension, the aim is to ensure that employees lead a healthy working life and work in hospital organisations in order to provide quality healthcare.
To this end, a structure for managing human resources should be established, measures should be taken to address factors that threaten the health and safety of employees and requirements for improving working life should be identified.
Patient Experience The Patient Experience Dimension aims to look at services from the patient's perspective with the aim of ensuring basic patient rights, patient safety and patient satisfaction.
To this end, the services provided by the hospital must be organised in such a way as to safeguard the rights of the patient and their loved ones, ensure timely access to services and ensure patient comfort and ensure patient safety.
- Health services
The aim is to ensure that all medical services provided in the hospital are delivered within the scope of SAS objectives. To this end, work should be carried out in the areas of control and prevention of infections, sterilization services, drug administration, transfusion management, radiation safety, patient care, laboratory services, safe surgery and emergency health services.
- Support services
In the Support Services dimension, the aim is to create the necessary infrastructure to ensure the safety and continuity of medical service processes. In order to achieve this objective, work should be carried out on hospitality services, facilities management, waste management, information management and material and equipment management should be provided, activities for the use of external resources should be planned.
- Emergency Management
In this dimension, natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, or fires, explosions, etc. The aim is to prevent the most rapid and effective intervention in the event of the risk and/or action of kidnapping and/or child abduction, respiratory or cardiac arrest and violence by employees.