GAHAR - General Authority for Healthcare Accreditation and Regulation

To support the healthcare facilities in their journey to accreditation, GAHAR has issued requirements for provisional accreditation. It is an optional step towards preparing healthcare facilities for final accreditation, only available to

• Hospitals
  
• Primary care units/centers
  

by achieving acceptable levels of quality in healthcare and human safety.

Provisional accreditation is based on four main items:

• Basic requirements
  
• National Safety Requirements (NSR)
  
• Basic Quality Requirements (EQR)
  
• Operational manual
  

National Safety Requirements (NSR) aim to improve patient safety in healthcare facilities. GAHAR has selected standards that directly affect the safety of individuals, to be placed as basic requirements for facilities willing to join the Universal Health Insurance (UHI) system.

Healthcare Facilities must demonstrate their commitment to patient safety. This requires compliance with all National Safety Requirements (NSR).

Essential Quality Requirements (EQR) ensures the efficiency and effectiveness of the health service and the satisfaction of the beneficiaries of the service.

The requirements of the operating manual for the health facility are to guarantee stable professional performance of the facility in all its departments and at all levels of service provision, at all times and in all cases.

Accreditation of Healthcare Facilities

• The Accreditation process is a complete survey and assessment process, done by GAHAR surveyors to assess the healthcare facilities compliance with GAHAR accreditation standards.
  
• Accreditation aims at ensuring the quality of healthcare outputs, hence improving the level of the provided service.
• Accreditation promotes continuous improvement and creates a safety culture in the healthcare facilities; accreditation of healthcare facilities increases the community turst in the provided services.
• Healthcare providers benefit from standards implementation as it boosts the patients’ satisfaction level, and supports the utmost utilization as main pillars of the universal health insurance system.