NABH Accreditation Advantages

With the turn of the century, competition in most industries has gone up by several notches and every participant has had to innovate and preserve high standards to stay in the race. With evolving technology, increasing talent and more obtainable avenues in business, there can only be so much difference in the standard of different goods and services in direct rivalry with each other. To set oneself apart, notice to quality and customer compass reading would need to be given utmost priority.

Healthcare is no different. They insist on quality in healthcare services has risen due to various market forces such as medical tourism, insurance, corporate growth, and opposition. With investment set to grow in healthcare, both from the private and public sectors, stakes will be high and all participants will want to ensure that this asset is put to the best use possible. Customers of healthcare facilities, both internal (participant doctors, clinical and nonclinical staff)) and outside (patients), will want to ensure that they are a part of an institution that is recognized for the quality and high standard of their services. Therefore, it is imperative that healthcare amenities strive for fineness in quality. Accreditation bodies like NABH act as a quality assurance device.

Listed below are some of the key advantages:

1.       Patients

Ø  NABH standards facilitate enduring safety and reduction in errors

Ø  Improved quality of care and importance to patient rights results in a better patient satisfaction rate

Ø  Accreditation helps improve the assurance of the community towards the services provide by the hospital

2.      Staff

Ø  Results in greater staff satisfaction as it provides a prospect for incessant learning, good working surroundings, and ownership of the scientific process

Ø  It also helps recruitment activities as the staff prefer to work with an accredited organization over a non- accredited organization

Ø  It ensures staff efficiency, accountability, and devotion to Standard Operating Procedures

Ø  Accreditation bodies offer continuous support and training to the credited organization

3.      Insurance and TPA

Ø  Accreditation has now become a prerequisite to be entitled to certain insurance reimbursement, participation in managed care plans and bidding on a contract

4.      Marketing

Ø  An accreditation status provides marketing benefit in a competitive health care flea market and improves the aptitude to secure new business

Ø  It provides an opportunity for the hospital to benchmark its services with the best and in turn helps promote footfalls along with medical sightseeing

5.       Hospital

Ø  In addition to the above, official approval helps the organization make more efficient its processes and ensure adherence to it

Ø  It also provides a structure for setting up quality development plans

Ø  Helps in risk organization

The quality of healthcare imparted to patients in several hospitals in India fall short of standards of care and healing. One can only hope that a combination of realization by these hospitals to get better and the passing of a law to make a quality official approval mandatory will finally lead to quality healthcare in its truest brains.