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First NABH Accredited Hospital in Andhra Pradesh

            The State of Andhra Pradesh has seen a great spurt in the Health Care Sector from multi-super-specialty hospitals like Medwin to public service government sponsored health schemes.
            Not to be left behind on the map of Accredited hospitals in the country, the state of Andhra Pradesh can now boast of the its own such hospital - Medwin Hospital and be a part of this elite group.
            Medwin hospital commits itself to upholding the dignity of this noblest of services by providing healthcare which is safe and satisfactory to each of its trusting patients, always being true to its ideal of being everyone’s ‘ Family Doctor”.

What is NABH ?

National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) is a constituent board of Quality Council of India, set up to establish and operate accreditation program for healthcare organizations. the board is structured to cater to much desired needs of the consumers and to set benchmarks for progress of health industry. The board while being supported by all stakeholders including industry, consumers, government, have full functional autonomy in its operation.1(source: NABH official website)
The Accreditation process involves comprehensive review of hospital's compliance with NABH's standards. Cardinal principles of assessment are;

i)	hospital operations are based on sound principles of system based organization
ii)	NABH standards are implemented and institutionalize into hospital functioning.
iii)	Patient safety and quality of care, as core values, are established and owned by management and staff in all functions and at all levels.
iv)	there is structured quality improvement program based on continuous monitoring of patient care services.

Accreditation benefits all Stake Holders. Patients are the biggest beneficiaries. Accreditation results in high quality of care and patient safety. The patients get services by credential medical staff. Rights of patients are respected and protected. Patient satisfaction is regularly evaluated.
Accreditation to a Hospital stimulates continuous improvement. It enables hospital in demonstrating commitment to quality care. It raises community confidence in the services provided by the hospital. It also provides opportunity to healthcare unit to benchmark with the best.
The Staff in an accredited hospital are satisfied lot as it provides for continuous learning, good working environment, leadership and above all ownership of clinical processes. It improves overall professional development of Clinicians and Paramedical staff and provides leadership for quality improvement within medicine and nursing.
Accreditation provides an objective system of empanelment by insurance and other Third Parties . Accreditation provides access to reliable and certified information on facilities, infrastructure and level of care. 1

Although the concept of accreditation and its importance for healthcare has been evident worldwide for the last 40 years, this aspect has entered the Indian scenario only since the last couple of years. The NABH was established and released the first set of Standards for healthcare organizations in India in mid 2005.
However since then only a handful of hospitals in the country have been able to attain this quality distinction and unfortunately none in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
How important is it for Medwin Hospital to be accredited ?

There is an increasing awareness by the patients for the need to be reassured that the hospital they go to adheres to standard practices. This is a felt need of not just the patient themselves, but also from the health insurance industry and from those organizations which provide healthcare cover for their employees through hospital affiliations eg. CGHS, ESI, private multinational companies etc. These so called third parties want to be sure that the beneficiaries of health services get the best and safest treatments with total satisfaction and transparency.
Medwin hospital has a long history of being a pioneer in providing personalized health services of the highest norms. This NABH accreditation gives it the seal of approval by the apex body for quality in the country. The NABH standards under which this accreditation has been awarded is regconised by the ISQua* giving it an international acceptance.

This internationally recognized accreditation opens our doors to the world for medical tourism which again is a reflection of our commitment to be a world class centre of excellence.

Medwin Hospitals and the Accreditation process:

Medwin Hospitals took a conscious and voluntary decision to submit to the intense scrutiny of by the NABH assessors. The hospital did a critical introspection of its internal functioning vis a vis the NABH standards. As per the NABH mandate, the hospital went through three levels of evaluation - a preassessment, a final assessment and a verification assessment and was evaluated for compliance to 503 elements of the NABH standards. It is to the credit of the team Medwin that the hospital cleared each of these levels in one attempt.