Four New Scales for Ranking National Hospitals

With regard to the advantages of the new accreditation process, Dr. Mohammad-Esmaeil Khayyami, the deputy of supervision and accreditation of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, asserted: in the new accreditation, being patient-oriented is emphasized over being department-oriented. Moreover, the teamwork of all the staff including doctors, nurses and treatment personnel is highly emphasized.

According to WebDa, on the side-meetings of the conference on the Country’s Region 9 hospital treatment centers accreditation, Dr. Khayyami stated: hospital accreditation process of the previousyears is evaluated and revised. In July this year, new accreditation standards are communicated by the Ministry of Health, Hygiene and Medical Education.

Dr. Khayyami, also the secretary of the conference Country’s Region 9 Hospital Accreditation, went on by saying: this accreditation is compiled based on eight orientations, 250 standards and 903 benchmarks, while accreditation benchmarks of the previous period were 8,000 which are decreased now to improve the quality and raise practicality.

“All hospitals under the supervision of the university will be ranked in the framework of four scales on the basis of the new accreditation standards such that according to these standards, the country’s hospitals will receive licenses based on their quality in offering services. The evaluations would be divided into four scales as: excellent, 1, 2, and 3”, said Dr. Khayyami.

As he puts it, the excellent is the highest and the third is the lowest of all in the new accreditation framework.

“Among the main orientations of the new accreditation are: the constant improvement in quality, people’s satisfaction, nursing services management, drug and equipment management, hoteling management and services management”, he averred.

Dr. Khayyami spoke of the participation of hospital managers, nursing presidents, specialists in accreditation of hospitals in Region 9 of the country including Khorasan Razavi Province, Northern Khorasan Province and Southern Khorasan Province in the conference hosted by Mashhad University of Medical Sciences.

The conference of country’s headquarter region 9 health and treatment centers was held in Mashhad with the presence and participation of 300 hospital managers, nursing presidents and hospital evaluation specialists from Northern, Razavi and Southern Khorasan Provinces.