Advantages Of NABH Accreditation
In the following article we’ll mention an important topic that’s “Advantages of NABH Accreditation” let’s discuss within the article given below:
With the turn of the century, competition in most industries has gone up by several notches and each and every participant has had to innovate and maintain high standards in order to stay in the race. With evolving technology, increasing talent and more available avenues in business, there can only be so much variation in the standard of various different products and services in direct competition with each other. To set oneself apart, attention to quality and customer orientation would really need to be given utmost priority.
Healthcare is no different. The demand for quality in healthcare services has actually risen because of various market forces like insurance, medical tourism, corporate growth as well as competition. With investment set to grow in healthcare, both from the private and public sector, stakes will actually be high and all participants will want to make sure that this investment is put to the best use possible.
Customers of healthcare facilities, both internal (participant doctors, clinical and non clinical staff)) and external (patients), will want to make sure that they’re a part of an institution that is recognized for the quality and high standard of their services. Therefore, it is imperative that healthcare facilities strive for excellence in quality. Accreditation bodies such as NABH actually acts as a top quality assurance mechanism.
Given below are some of the key advantages:
Patients
- NABH standards actually facilitate patient safety as well as reduction in errors
- Improved quality of care as well as importance to patient rights leads to a greater patient satisfaction rate
- Accreditation actually helps improve the confidence of the community towards the services that are provided by the hospital
Staff
- Results in greater staff satisfaction because it provides an good opportunity for continuous learning, good working environment and ownership of clinical processes
- It also helps recruitment activities because the staff prefers to work with an accredited organization over a non- accredited organization
- It makes sure of the accountability, staff efficiency as well as adherence to standard Operating Procedures
- Accreditation bodies actually provide continuous support as well as training to accredited organization
Insurance and TPA
- Accreditation has now really become a prerequisite to actually be eligible for certain insurance reimbursement, participation in managed care plans as well as bidding on contracts
Marketing
- An accreditation status provides marketing advantage in acompetitive health care marketplace and improves the overall ability to secure new business
- It provides an excellent opportunity for the hospital to benchmark its services with the best and in turn also helps promote footfalls along with medical tourism
Hospital
- In addition to the above mentioned, an accreditation actually helps the organization streamline its processes as well t ensure adherence to it
- It also provides a framework for actually setting up quality improvement plans
- Helps in risk management
The quality of healthcare imparted to patients in many hospitals in India actually fall short of standards of care as well as healing. One can only hope that a combination of realization by these hospitals to improve and the passing of a law to make quality accreditation mandatory will eventually lead to quality healthcare in its truest sense.
