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HOW TO DESIGN AN NABH COMPLIANT HOSPITAL

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  1.What is NABH? National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) is a constituent board of Quality Council of India, set up to establish and operation accreditation program for healthcare organizations. NABH is structured to cater too much desired needs of the consumers and to set benchmarks for progress of health industry. 2. What are the benefits of NABH? NABH is Public Recognition of achievement of accreditation standard by a healthcare Organization, Demonstrated through an independent external peer assessment of that organizations level of performance in relation to the NABH standards . Though NABH is integral part of Healthcare service providers as it’s pre-requisite to get empanelled for various government facilities and insurance facility, as it provides access to reliable and certified information on facility. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDA) have directed healthcare providers offer...

PLANNING AND DESIGNING AN ISOLATION FACILITY IN HOSPITALS

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  Infection control is emerging as a biggest challenge to health services around the world. All hospitals knowingly or unknowingly admit patients with communicable diseases. In recent years, emerging infectious diseases represent an ongoing threat to the health and livelihoods of people everywhere. Over the last few decades, there have been several emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) that have taken the global community by surprise and drawn new attention to EIDs, including HIV, SARS, H1N1, Ebola, Encephalitis (NIPAH Virus), and Now COVID-19 . For over a century, it has been recommended that patients with infectious diseases should be placed in segregated facilities to prevent the spread of infection. Hospital’s isolation precautions must fulfill following objective: • To separate patients who are likely to be infectious to other persons. • To provide an environment that will allow reduction of the concentration of airborne particles through various engineering ...