Nazareth Hospital in Shillong has received accreditation from the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) for its unwavering commitment to quality and patient safety.
According to a statement from the hospital, the certificate was achieved after compliance was assessed to hundreds of laid down standards, which focuses on patient safety and quality of the delivery of services by the hospitals in a changing healthcare environment.
“This accreditation is a testimony to the fulfilment by Nazareth Hospital towards these goals,” the statement said.
The hospital informed that the process towards NABH certification was started by Nazareth in 2016, when it received the entry level certification – the first hospital in Meghalaya to do so.
In the recent past, several new facilities have been started at Nazareth hospital. These include state of the art modular OT complex which allows greater patient safety and convenience while complex surgeries are performed by specialists and super specialists, new labour room, new paediatrics ward, neonatal intensive care unit with greater number of beds, new paediatric intensive care unit. At the same time, highly skilled human resources in the form of neurosurgeon, paediatric surgeon and cardiologist in addition to so many others offer their services to patients.
A significant addition to the existing services is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) which is a non invasive medical imaging test that produces detailed images of almost every internal structure in the human body, including the organs, bones, muscles and blood vessels, the statement said.
Informing that the laboratory services of the hospital received NABL certification in 2017 with biochemistry and pathology, the hospital said ever since Nazareth progressed after several cycles of certification to include biochemistry, microbiology, molecular diagnostics, hematology and clinical pathology.
