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Acibadem 's complete healthcare units from polyclinics to hospitals have all been accredited By Joint Commission Ýnternational (JCI) which symbolizes the quality in healthcare develops a model.
In recent years, the quality healthcarepatient safety have been given high priority. Ýn relation to these points, the equivalence of international JCI accreditation has been regarded as the most widely accepted evaluation model during the past 10 years. Accreditation is a methodology which has the highest potential for shaping patient healthcare. At JCI accreditation, the standards determining the patient care organizational administration have come on the picture. Patient-oriented standards include the patient care, medical access convenience, patient evaluation, quality healthcare service, patient visitor rights infection control. Organization-oriented standards on the other hand, concentrate on subjects such as the hospital management, security, qualifications of staff, quality improvement, leadershipinformation management.
Form this perspective, the acquisition of JCI accreditation by Acibadem is expected to improve not only the quality of patient's healthcare but also upgrade the services in health the sector as a whole. The president of Acibadem Healthcare Group's board of directors Mr. Mehmet Ali Aydýnlar, has stated that this acquisition would be a new beginning for healthcare institutions in turkey: ''We intend to provide the bestmost reliable healthcare services to our patientspublic. Our accreditation by JCI is a significant success in the way of excellence.'' the JCI head of executive board, Karen Timmons has also given us this information about subject: ''the healthcare institutions of the world are trying to create an environment of quality, safetypermanent improvement. Therefore, our accreditation encourages the continuoussystematic improvement of hospital performance together with patient's healthcare results. Acibadem healthcare group's acceptance of this objective is an indication of its determination on the subjects of qualitysafety.''
Its benefits in terms of patients
JCI has accredited 55 hospitals in the world35 of them are in europe. Since jci accreditation method gives prior importance to patient safetyrights, all accredited institutions are first audited from these factors. Acibadem Director: ''in order to be accredited by jci, institutions should acquire certain standards. Patient care, patientvisitor rights, access to healthcare convenienceimportance given to patients training are among the key standards.'' reminding us that in terms of these standards they will be audited again after 3 years, the director of Acibadem Hospital Kozyataðý Dr. Hasan Kuþ has summarized the advantages of the accreditation: “it provides tangible patient trainingcommunication, improves the process of patient's expectation evaluation, encourages the participation of patients in decisions regarding to their own healthcare, increases the safetymeet the expectations of international patients.''
JCI Accreditationits Benefits
While JCI accreditation brings substantial advantages to patientvisitors, it is also beneficial in terms of hospital administrationstaff especially the physicians. The acquisition of JCI accreditation by acibadem presents its qualityreliability at the international arena from this perspective as well. Acýbadem Director, by underlining the importance of this certificate for international recognition has listed the its benefits: ''JCI accreditation speeds up the organizational improvement, provides cooperation with international hospitals, spearheads the deployment of positive applications, strengthens the decision making mechanism with the help of proven indicators. Ýt also introduces other organizational advantages such as the uniform procedures, correct planningtraining together with orderly kept patient's records.''
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