NABH stands for National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers. It is a constituent board of the Quality Council of India (QCI) that sets stringent quality and safety standards for healthcare organizations in India. Accreditation from NABH not only boosts a healthcare facility’s credibility but also improves operational efficiency, patient trust, and service outcomes. NABH accreditation is a mark of excellence that assures patients the hospital or healthcare facility follows internationally accepted protocols for:
Patient safety and rights
Quality of care
Infection control
Infrastructure and facility standards
Continuous quality improvement
Benefits for Hospital Patients
a) Patients are the biggest beneficiary among all the stakeholders
b) Accreditation results in high quality of care and patient safety.
c) The patients are serviced by credentialed medical staff.
d) Rights of patients are respected and protected.
Patient’s satisfaction is regularly evaluated.
Benefits for Hospital
a) Accreditation provides an objective system of empanelment by insurance and other TPA
b) Accreditation to a health care organization stimulates continuous improvement.
c) It enables the organization in demonstrating commitment to quality care and patient safety thereby ensures best clinical outcomes.
d) It raises community confidence in the services provided by the health care organization as services provided by credentialed medical staff
e) It also provides opportunity to healthcare unit to benchmark with the best.
f) An accreditation status also provides marketing advantage in a competitive health care.
Benefits for Hospital Staff
a) The staff in an accredited Hospital is satisfied lot as it provides for continuous learning, good working environment and leadership.
b) Efficiencies and competencies of staff also gets improved in an accredited Hospital.
c) It improves overall professional development, knowledge and competencies in systematic ways with defined ownership and accountability of all the staff