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Doha
Four of Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) newest hospitals were among the 13 facilities and services accredited this month by the Joint Commission International (JCI). This is HMC’s greatest accreditation success to date.
Three of these new hospitals -- the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC), Qatar Rehabilitation Institute (QRI) and the Communicable Disease Center (CDC) -- were accredited for the first time while Women’s Wellness and Research Center (WWRC), located on the same Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City campus, was re-accredited.
JCI accreditation is seen as the gold standard for the accreditation of hospitals worldwide and requires strict patient safety and quality improvement standards to be met before accreditation is granted.
QRI is Qatar’s only specialist rehabilitation hospital and provides rehabilitation services including inpatient care, day care, outpatient and paediatric clinics, speech, occupational and physical therapy, as well as community-based rehabilitation to patients with stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury as well as other neurological conditions. Treatment of musculoskeletal disorders, pain management and outpatient pediatric rehabilitation are also provided.
Dr Wafa al Yazeedi, chairperson of Rehabilitation at QRI, said: “Our clinicians, therapists and all our staff are so proud to have been successful in our first ever JCI survey and we are confident that the great work taking place across our facility has been instrumental to this accreditation success. Since opening our first clinic in 2016, we have cared for over 80,000 outpatients as well as more than 1,000 inpatients since the arrival of our first inpatient in March 2017.”
Highlighting the pride of staff in achieving JCI accreditation and some of the many achievements of the Communicable Disease Center, Dr Muna al Maslamani, medical director of the CDC, said: “Last year, we not only delivered care through more than 120,000 outpatient visits but we also saw 1,271 admissions to our specialised tuberculosis (TB) wards – 70 percent more than in 2017. This increase highlights the great work our staff are doing to raise awareness of TB among a rapidly growing population to ensure the condition does not spread untreated.
Although TB is the most common infectious disease we see, we also treat patients suffering from a range of other infectious diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), influenza, measles, hepatitis, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids), as well as a number of travel-related diseases and illnesses. We also offer a dedicated Travel Clinic which offers vaccinations and preventative information for people travelling overseas as well as treatment for those returning with travel-related illnesses.”
Dr Khalid al Jalham, director of the ACC, said all the hospital’s staff were proud of the Ambulatory Care Center achieving JCI accreditation for the first time.
He said, “It is fantastic to see the great work we are doing at the ACC being formally recognised by such as prestigious accreditation body as the JCI.
The last of HMC’s newest hospitals to be accredited this month was the Women’s Wellness and Research Center (WWRC).
The new facility which provides women in Qatar with specialised clinical and surgical care manages all women’s health and maternity services as well as newborn care. This month’s re-accreditation success followed the accreditation of the former Women’s Hospital in 2016.
Dr Hilal al Rifai, medical director at WWRC, said: “Our biggest success since the accreditation of Women’s Hospital as an academic center in 2016, has been the transfer of all women and newborn services to our new, state-of-the-art hospital in Medical City.
“Since we welcomed our first outpatients to the Women’s Wellness and Research Center in May 2017, we have seen the successful transfer of nearly all clinics and services from the former Women’s Hospital to our new facility. These include all gynaecology and hormone replacement therapy services, as well as all well-baby clinics and the Fetomaternal Medicine Unit.”
Doha
Four of Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) newest hospitals were among the 13 facilities and services accredited this month by the Joint Commission International (JCI). This is HMC’s greatest accreditation success to date.
Three of these new hospitals -- the Ambulatory Care Center (ACC), Qatar Rehabilitation Institute (QRI) and the Communicable Disease Center (CDC) -- were accredited for the first time while Women’s Wellness and Research Center (WWRC), located on the same Hamad Bin Khalifa Medical City campus, was re-accredited.
JCI accreditation is seen as the gold standard for the accreditation of hospitals worldwide and requires strict patient safety and quality improvement standards to be met before accreditation is granted.
QRI is Qatar’s only specialist rehabilitation hospital and provides rehabilitation services including inpatient care, day care, outpatient and paediatric clinics, speech, occupational and physical therapy, as well as community-based rehabilitation to patients with stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury as well as other neurological conditions. Treatment of musculoskeletal disorders, pain management and outpatient pediatric rehabilitation are also provided.
Dr Wafa al Yazeedi, chairperson of Rehabilitation at QRI, said: “Our clinicians, therapists and all our staff are so proud to have been successful in our first ever JCI survey and we are confident that the great work taking place across our facility has been instrumental to this accreditation success. Since opening our first clinic in 2016, we have cared for over 80,000 outpatients as well as more than 1,000 inpatients since the arrival of our first inpatient in March 2017.”
Highlighting the pride of staff in achieving JCI accreditation and some of the many achievements of the Communicable Disease Center, Dr Muna al Maslamani, medical director of the CDC, said: “Last year, we not only delivered care through more than 120,000 outpatient visits but we also saw 1,271 admissions to our specialised tuberculosis (TB) wards – 70 percent more than in 2017. This increase highlights the great work our staff are doing to raise awareness of TB among a rapidly growing population to ensure the condition does not spread untreated.
Although TB is the most common infectious disease we see, we also treat patients suffering from a range of other infectious diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), influenza, measles, hepatitis, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Aids), as well as a number of travel-related diseases and illnesses. We also offer a dedicated Travel Clinic which offers vaccinations and preventative information for people travelling overseas as well as treatment for those returning with travel-related illnesses.”
Dr Khalid al Jalham, director of the ACC, said all the hospital’s staff were proud of the Ambulatory Care Center achieving JCI accreditation for the first time.
He said, “It is fantastic to see the great work we are doing at the ACC being formally recognised by such as prestigious accreditation body as the JCI.
The last of HMC’s newest hospitals to be accredited this month was the Women’s Wellness and Research Center (WWRC).
The new facility which provides women in Qatar with specialised clinical and surgical care manages all women’s health and maternity services as well as newborn care. This month’s re-accreditation success followed the accreditation of the former Women’s Hospital in 2016.
Dr Hilal al Rifai, medical director at WWRC, said: “Our biggest success since the accreditation of Women’s Hospital as an academic center in 2016, has been the transfer of all women and newborn services to our new, state-of-the-art hospital in Medical City.
“Since we welcomed our first outpatients to the Women’s Wellness and Research Center in May 2017, we have seen the successful transfer of nearly all clinics and services from the former Women’s Hospital to our new facility. These include all gynaecology and hormone replacement therapy services, as well as all well-baby clinics and the Fetomaternal Medicine Unit.”
