Putting the care of our health and that of our family members in the hands of the best professionals is a widespread priority for the entire population, even more so at this time, when the health crisis generated by the COVID-19 pandemic has put it at risk throughout the world and globally.
In terms of health and if we were given the opportunity to choose, we would all like to be treated in the best hospitals in the world. But what are these hospitals and what criteria are they based on to decide which health centers occupy this ranking?
The Joint Commission International is the most prestigious and demanding accreditation in the world in the field of healthcare quality, awarded by the American non-profit organization The Joint Commission, founded in 1951 (www.jointcommission.org). It certifies and periodically reviews more than 20.000 health programs and centers with the founding objective of seeking excellence in safety and quality, always oriented to the patient.
The most prestigious hospitals in the world, including the Mayo Clinic, Mount Sinaí or MD Anderson in Houston, are part of the restricted club of those that have managed to meet their demands.
Povisa, among the world's elite hospitals since 2013
In 2013, Povisa achieved a milestone in the history of Galician hospitals. For the first time and until today, it became the only hospital in Galicia to obtain accreditation from the Joint Commission, which certified its search for excellence in quality care. The achievement of this achievement was added to that achieved a year earlier, making it the first hospital in Spain to obtain the National Healthcare Safety Certification.
For seven years, Povisa has continued to be committed to maintaining this constant commitment to excellence in quality, subjecting each hospital protocol to a permanent and exhaustive analysis process. From the use of medications, rights of the patient and her family, humanization of care processes, prevention of medication errors, to antibiotic or therapeutic policy. A fact that is visible in the continuous and consecutive renewal of the JCI accreditation, which only 13 hospitals in Spain have. To do this, it undergoes a thorough audit every 3 years in which the audit team holds meetings with patients treated or operated on at the hospital and during which more than 13.000 parameters are evaluated.
Povisa's quality of care has also recently been recognized with another accreditation, the QH (Quality Healthcare), awarded by the Institute for the Development and Integration of Health (IDIS), and a reference for the entire National Health System. It brings together and integrates into a single indicator the different variables that make up and evaluate the quality of care of a health center.
This is a pioneering accreditation that recognizes excellence in healthcare quality in healthcare organizations that also maintain continuous improvement and optimization processes. In the case of Povisa, in recent days it has received the QH + 2-star Accreditation, which reaccredits it, for a period of two years, after achieving this recognition for the first time in 2015.
Reference for the south of Galicia
You will be interested to know that, in the public sphere, Povisa is a reference for the south of Galicia in Complex Upper Limb Surgery, Peripheral Nerve Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery, Burns, Children's Plastic Surgery and Lithotripsy (the latter only for the Vigo area) . It also has a 24-hour emergency service with all specialties, and the most modern organization and diagnosis systems.
Povisa is also the only private hospital in Galicia, and one of the few in Spain, that has MIR training for specialists in Internal Medicine, General Surgery, Anesthesiology, Radiology, Traumatology and Family and Community Medicine. In this field of training, considered strategic by the Group's management, it also has the Povisa Study Center -CEP-, based in Vigo and where more than 1.200 students have graduated in Nursing and vocational training oriented especially to the health field. .
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