CBAHI-ACCREDITATION

Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions(CBAHI) Accreditation

Gulf Management Systems (GMC) is a team of highly experienced Accreditation consultants and advisors, with expertise in all aspects of accreditation and Management Systems. Our skilled team of consultants will work together with your organisation to understand your business needs to build a robust and tailored Management System at an affordable investment without the hassle.

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What is CBAHI ?

The Saudi Central Board for Accreditation of Healthcare Institutions (CBAHI) is the official agency authorized to grant healthcare accreditation to all governmental and private healthcare facilities operating today in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Having originally emerged from the Saudi Health Council as a non-profit organization, CBAHI is primarily responsible for setting quality and safety standards to ensure a better and safer healthcare system.

CBAHI Standards

CBAHI standards focus on three major aspects depending on which area they are addressing.

• Structure; standards address the system’s inputs, such as manpower, design of the HCF building, the availability of personal protective equipment for health workers, such as gloves and masks and the availability of equipment and supplies, such as microscopes and laboratory reagents.
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• Process; standards address the clinical and administrative activities or interventions carried out within the HCF in the care of patients or the management of the facility or its staff. Examples include patient assessment, patient education and medication administration.
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• Outcome; standards involve the assessment of an intervention’s benefits and whether the activity’s expected purpose was achieved. They provide information regarding predicted outcomes, which are being realized. Examples include patient satisfaction, health-care-associated infections, medication errors, sentinel events and adverse events such as falls and injuries.

Structure of the National Standards for Ambulatory Care Centers

The National Standards for Ambulatory Care Centers are assembled into eleven chapters consisting of key services and functions that ambulatory healthcare centers provide in Saudi Arabia.

Benefits of CBAHI Accreditation?

Following is a list of possible benefits of accreditation to a healthcare facility:

• Accreditation provides a framework for the organizational structure and management.
• It helps improve patient safety and minimize the risk of near misses, adverse outcomes, and medical errors.
• It enhances community confidence in the quality and safety of care provided.
• Achieving accreditation will satisfy the regulations of the Ministry of Health, being the legislative health authority, which is now considering linking the national accreditation by CBAHI with the licensing of the private healthcare facilities. 
• Registration with CBAHI and enrollment in its national accreditation program is accepted by the Ministry of Health -at this stage- as a satisfactory evidence for the purpose of license renewal. Eventually however, all healthcare facilities operating in Saudi Arabia are required to achieve accreditation by CBAHI.
• Reimbursement by insurers and other third parties is a growing tendency, nationally and internationally, to link achieve accreditation..
• Accreditation provides a robust tool for the continuous quality improvement efforts in the healthcare facilities.

What are the CBAHI requirements?

In order to achieve “CBAHI Accreditation ” for your Ambulatory Care Center, the NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR AMBULATORY CARE CENTERS standard specifies that your organisation addresses eleven chapters consisting of key services and functions that ambulatory healthcare centers provide in Saudi Arabia.

The chapters are:

• • Leadership of the Organization (LD)
  • Provision of Care (PC)
  • Laboratory Services (LB)
  • Radiology Services (RD)
  • Dental Services (DN)
  • Medication Management (MM)
  • Management of Information (MOI)
  • Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
  • Facility Management and Safety (FMS)
  • Day Procedure Unit (DPU)
  • Dermatology & Aesthetics Medicine (DA)

How Can We Assist You?

Gap Assessment

We offer this service to organisations that have existing documents including policies, procedures, manuals, forms, handbooks, etc. and would like to check if the existing documents meet the requirements of the desired standards and what they need to do to certify the system. 

System Development

We offer this service to organisations that do not have any existing system (documents) including policies, procedures, manuals, forms, handbooks, etc. or the gap assessment shows that their existing system needs to improve to meet the requirements of the desired standard. 

Implementation

A Management system should be documented and implemented to meet the requirements of the desired standards. We will supervise and guide our clients during the Implementation of the management while they follow the policies and procedures and use the forms.

Attending External Audit

Dealing with the external auditor might be quite stressful and challenging for the organisations, particularly for the ones that are willing to certify their system for the first time. We will attend the external audit and assist them as a facilitator for a better and smoother experience.

Ongoing Maintenance

Once the organisations achieve their accreditation, they will face a new challenge for maintaining what they have achieved . We offer this service to draw their attention to what they might miss in the routines.