KUCHING: Normah Medical Specialist Centre (NMSC) has extended its Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation by a further three years until 2017. The leading private hospital here said it was one in 10 hospitals in Malaysia to receive the JCI accreditation. It is also the only hospital in Sarawak and Sabah to be JCI recognised.
“With the JCI accreditation, patients come to Normah for medical treatment, they can be assured the medical care given is exactly the same as any hospital in the US or the UK,” it added in a press release.
It said the accreditation meant NMSC was on par with other accredited hospitals in developed countries.
“JCI accreditation includes on-going practice evaluation of the doctors’ performance and to ensure there is a uniform standard of care and safety for patients.
“Patients are treated based on clinical practice guidelines and evidence based medicines. The on-going professional practice evaluation ensures the doctors are current in their practice and up-to-date.”
NMSC said the JCI accreditation was particularly meaningful for the hospital here, as Malaysian doctors often received medical training from different parts of the world.
The private hospital in Petra Jaya was established in 1988. “We come a long way since then: From being just a 130-beds non-profit healthcare facility what is now a world-class quality healthcare provider.”
Normah was first given the JCI accreditation in 2011. The accreditation also allows the hospital to benchmark the performance of the hospital and performance of the doctors including x-ray reports, angiogram reports to other hospitals in the US which we are currently doing to ensure that we get the same outcome for our patients as those hospitals in the US.
Earning the national accreditation from local MSQH and international accreditation from prestigious global JCI has helped Normah Hospital to further improve all facets of its comprehensive ranges of services.
The statement said NMSC was proud to say that it adopted and strictly complied with the six International Patient safety goals.
Having a JCI accreditation also ensures that NMSC has an ongoing programme for continuous quality improvement focusing on how to better provide safe, error-free, competent and affordable healthcare to our local and international patients.
Patients can now have greater assurance that they will receive quality and safe care in a hospital that meets globally accepted standards.
Source:The Star