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Ministries of health in several sub-Saharan African countries, including Zambia, Uganda, and South African, were reported to have begun planning health system reform including hospital accreditation before 2002. However, most hospitals in Africa are administered by local health ministries or missionary organizations without accreditation programs.
The Joint Commission is a United States-based nonprofit tax-exempt 501(c) organization [1] that accredits more than 22,000 US health care organizations and programs. [2] The international branch accredits medical services from around the world.
Fundamentally healthcare and hospital accreditation is about improving how care is delivered to patients and the quality of the care they receive. Accreditation has been defined as "A self-assessment and external peer assessment process used by health care organisations to accurately assess their level of performance in relation to established standards and to implement ways to continuously ...
India has 27 JCI-accredited hospitals and rates of success and morbidity that equal or surpass the U.S. There is no single specialty in India, but common procedures include orthopedic surgery ...
Accreditation Canada accredited its first organization internationally in 1967 in Bermuda. [8] In 2010, Accreditation Canada International (ACI) was created to provide accreditation to hospitals, clinics, primary care centers and health systems. [9] Acreditas Global (formerly AAAHC International) has been present in Peru since 2012 and Costa ...
The social hospitals, are those ones managed by private institutions of social solidarity, namely the traditional Portuguese misericórdias (holy houses of mercy). These hospitals have agreements with the National Health Service, being public subsidized and providing healthcare to the users of that system in the same way as the public hospitals.
Portugal's National Health Service is responsible for providing healthcare services in public hospital institutions. [10] The healthcare system in Portugal is universal and is made up of three coexisting systems: the national health service, special social health insurance schemes for certain professions (health subsystems) and private health ...
Centro Hospitalar Universitário de Lisboa Central (pronounced [ˈsẽtɾu ɔʃpitɐˈlaɾ univɨɾsiˈtaɾju ðɨ liʒˈβoɐ sẽˈtɾal]; CHULC; "Central Lisbon University Hospital Centre") is a public hospital centre (a state-owned enterprise) serving the Greater Lisbon area, in Portugal.