Hospital Planning And Desigining Accordance to NABH/JCI Norms
The above examples point out deficiencies in hospital infrastructure. The biggest challenge for any operating hospital to secure accreditation is modification in infrastructure. The hospital project planning team normally takes inputs from various stakeholders like architects, service consultants and user team but tend to miss out on design considerations on NABH compliance with respect to infrastructure. In few cases the hospital planners try to justify their stand on facility requirement to hospital by using NABH as guidelines which may or may not be true. As mentioned in the NABH website, accreditation results in high quality of care and patient safety. Adoption of NABH standards related to infrastructure will help hospitals to achieve an environment conducive for patient safety. It is advised to go through the accreditation standards as part of hospital design and implement infrastruture requirements during the hospital construction phase. Statutory requirements: There are some mandatory requirements for accreditation of a hospital. NABH team invariably reviews all documents pertaining to legal compliances during their audit. The areas of imaging services like X-Ray, CT scanner unit should adhere to Atomic Energy Research Board norms. The AERB website provides the details on facility planning. The blood bank should have 100 sq m for operations of blood bank, 50 sq m for preparation of blood components and 10 sq m for Apheresis are to be considered
