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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 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.
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 ...
This is a list of cities in Portugal.In Portugal, a city (Portuguese: cidade) is an honorific term given to locations that meet several criteria, such as having a minimum number of inhabitants good infrastructure (schools, medical care, cultural and sports facilities), or have a major historical importance.
One of the large number of accreditation schemes in the United States, the Joint Commission (TJC) currently being the best known, has created Joint Commission International, or JCI. In recent years, DNV have been challenging TJC in the USA. Accreditation Canada accredited its first organization internationally in 1967 in Bermuda. [8]
From the capital of Lisbon to lesser-known historical location Amarante, these spots should go straight to the top of your must-visit list 8 best cities and towns in Portugal to visit on your next ...
Non-integrated hospitals and hospital centers are classified as group I (local), II (regional), III (central) or IV (specialized); [12] Local health units (LHU) - gather all health centers and hospitals located in a given city or region, they are responsible for providing both primary health care and differentiated health care. [12]
Hospitals in Portugal by city (2 C) D. Defunct hospitals in Portugal (2 P) H. Hospitals in Madeira (1 P) Pages in category "Hospitals in Portugal"