Thumbay Healthcare Division becomes 5th healthcare group in the world to receive JCI ‘Enterprise’ accreditation

  • Date: 12-Apr-2023
  • Source: Zawya
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:UAE
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Thumbay Healthcare Division becomes 5th healthcare group in the world to receive JCI ‘Enterprise’ accreditation

United Arab Emirates: Aligned with the efforts of UAE leaders to position the country as the number one destination for medical tourism, Thumbay Healthcare Division has recently achieved “JCI Enterprise Accreditation” from the Joint Commission International, making it the fifth healthcare group in the world to receive this prestigious title.

The Joint Commission International is a USA based global leader and world’s largest healthcare accreditor. JCI’s Gold seal of Approval is widely recognized certification representing the most comprehensive quality evaluation process in healthcare industry. JCI enterprise accreditation standards are designed to ensure a safe care environment which reduces the risk for care recipients and care givers, promotes alignment and consistency, efficiency across the facilities, demonstrates system wide continuous and sustained improvement, reduce healthcare cost and improve outcome and patient experience across enterprise’s healthcare facilities.

JCI Enterprise survey focuses on enterprise’s central governance and leadership oversight, common organizationally and functionally aligned policies and procedures, patient centered care, quality of care oversight and patient safety. The accreditation further endorses the Thumbay Healthcare Division’s quality and care excellence with its compliance to standards, reflecting the standardization of quality care across its network of hospitals.

Healthcare accreditation journey of Thumbay Healthcare Division is a continuous and ongoing