NABH Application for Accreditation

The Accreditation process involves comprehensive review of hospital's compliance with NABH's standards. Cardinal principles of assessment are;

i)

hospital operations are based on sound principles of system based organization

ii)

NABH standards are implemented and institutionalize into hospital functioning.

iii)

Patient safety and quality of care, as core values, are established and owned by management and staff in all functions and at all levels.

iv)

there is structured quality improvement programme based on continuous monitoring of patient care services.

Steps

PREPARING FOR ACCREDITATION

Step 1

Obtain a copy of NABH standards

Step 2

Carry out self assessment on the status of compliance with the NABH standards

Step 3

Ensure that NABH standards are implemented and integrated with the hospital functioning

Step 4

Obtain acopy of application form (from NABH office or website)

Step 5

Fill &submit the application form in NABH office

Step 6

Pay the accreditation fee.

 

ACCREDITATION PROCESS

Step 1

Application for accreditation
( submitted by the Healthcare Organisation)

Step 2

Acknowledgement for accreditation
(by NABH secretariat)

Step 3

Pre assessment visit
( by Assessor )

Step 4

Final assessment of hospitals
(by Assessment Team)

Step 5

Scrutiny of the assessment report
(by NABH secretariat)

Step 6

Recommendation for accreditation
(by Accreditation Committee)

Step 7

Approval for accreditation
(by Chairman NABH)

Step 8

Issue of accreditation certificate
(by NABH secretariat)

The copy of NABH standards may be obtained by remitting Rs. 500/- by Demand Draft in Favor of "Quality Council of India" Payable at Delhi.

   

(Application for Accreditation)
NABH C/O Quality Council of India , Institution of Engineers Building, IIndFloor, Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg
New Delhi - 110002, India. Tel: 91-11-2337 9321, 2337 9260, 2337 0567 Fax: 91-11-2337 9621. Email:nabh@qcin.org