The Uganda Martyrs’ Hospital Lubaga in Kampala, Uganda, is proud to announce that it has obtained its first full two-year accreditation award from Cohsasa.
Mediclinic Nelspruit – awarded a four-year accreditation from Cohsasa
The hospital, located in Kampala, had an general rating of 33 at its baseline survey in October 2020 and achieved an general rating of 97 at its exterior survey – a feat certainly.
Equally thrilling is the accreditation of Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali (Chuk) in Rwanda’s capital metropolis which has additionally achieved a two-year accreditation award.
What do these awards imply?
Well being services which were accredited by Cohsasa meet extraordinarily rigorous worldwide requirements, signifying that sufferers attending these services can count on to obtain protected, high quality care. To see extra about accreditation, take a look at www.cohsasa.co.za.
Cohsasa is a not-for-profit firm (NPC) primarily based in Cape City. Right here is the record of the most recent accreditation awards conferred at a latest Board Assembly of Cohsasa.
| Title of Facility | Award | Period |
| King Faisal Hospital Kigali, Rwanda | Full Accreditation | 4 years |
| Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Kigali (Chuk) | Full Accreditation | 2 years |
| Uganda Martyrs’ Hospital, Lubaga, Kampala, uganda | Full Accreditation | 2 years |
| Girl Pohamba Non-public Hospital, Windhoek, Namibia | Full Accreditation | 3 years |
| Mediclinic Durbanville, Cape City, RSA | Full Accreditation | 4 years |
| Mediclinic Durbanville Day Clinic, Cape City RSA | Full Accreditation | 3 years |
| Treatment Day Hospital Bloemfontein RSA | Full Accreditation | 3 years |
| Treatment Day Hospital Paarl RSA | Full Accreditation | 3 years |
| Mediclinic Nelspruit Mpumalanga, RSA | Full Accreditation | 4 years |
A Cohsasa full accreditation award signifies that a healthcare facility has entered a demanding high quality enchancment programme and has been assessed towards and complied with requirements recognised by the Worldwide Society for High quality in Well being Care Exterior Analysis Affiliation (ISQua-EEA), the worldwide physique overseeing accreditation and high quality enchancment organisations in 70 nations all over the world.
Cohsasa itself is accredited by the ISQua EEA as are its requirements. Cohsasa is the one accrediting physique for healthcare services in Sub-Saharan Africa recognised by the ISQua EEA.
Healthcare services that originally enter the programme and meet requirements are awarded two-year accreditations and because the journey in high quality enchancment continues, awards of longer length are given. A four-year accreditation award from Cohsasa ought to sign to sufferers {that a} facility has sustained a superb degree of requirements over a big time period.
All services that obtain an accreditation award should bear an interim survey midway by means of the interval to make sure that requirements are being maintained.
