NABH Workshop - Learnings & Way forward

Patient safety has become a very important role in today healthcare industry. With increased awareness amongst patients about their health rights it has become imperative for hospitals to achieve a certain minimum quality levels & allied healthcare service providers while delivering healthcare. The widely acceptable healthcare quality standards in current India’s healthcare scenario are the NABH standards.

NABH

National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers (NABH) is a constituent board of Quality Council of India, set up to establish and operate accreditation programme for healthcare organizations. The board is structured to cater to much desired needs of the consumers and to set benchmarks for progress of health industry. The board while being supported by all stakeholders including industry, consumers, government, have full functional autonomy in its operation.

VISION of NABH-

To be the apex national healthcare accreditation and quality improvement body, functioning at power with global benchmarks.

MISSION of NABH-

To operate accreditation and allied programs in collaboration with stakeholders focusing on patient safety and quality of healthcare based upon national/international standards, through process of self and external evaluation.

OBJECTIVES of NABH-

·         Accreditation of healthcare facilities

·         Quality promotion: initiatives like Safe-I, Nursing Excellence, Laboratory certification programs (not limited to these)

·         IEC activities: public lecture, advertisement, workshops/ seminars

·         Education and Training for Quality & Patient Safety

·         Recognition: Endorsement of various healthcare quality courses/ workshops

As future healthcare managers it is very important for us to be aware of what NABH is all about, what its standards are & how to implement them in an organisation. With these objectives in mind a 3-day workshop was conducted by SIHS for both 1^st and 2^nd year MBA-HHM students on 2^nd,3^rd & 4^th of December 2014. 

The workshop was conducted by Dr Krishnamurthy, renowned anaesthesiologist & currently working with NABH & Dr S.K.M Rao, GM, Columbia Asia hospital, Kharadi, Pune who is also working with NABH on its accreditation board. The first lecture in the morning session on 2^nd December was conducted by Dr SKM RAO. He introduced us to the concept of NABH and how it’s a part of Quality council of India. He explained how NABH is different from the regulatory laws of our country & healthcare and how the two should not be confused.

NABH has specific standards for dental establishments as well as pathological labs.

S.K.M Rao, in the first session, explained every standard pertaining to AAC & COP. Later Dr. Krishnamurthy took over in the afternoon & explained standards of MOM & PRE. He had a very effective way of putting his point forth. His session was quite entertaining and educating at same time.

The second day of the NABH workshop was conducted in the SLS auditorium. The workshop began at 9am with the first portion of the session being carried out by Dr Krishnamurthy and the second portion of the session by Dr Sunil Rao. Both the speakers spoke in length about NABH standards like Hospital Infection Control, Continual Quality Improvement, etc. The need for intensive patient safety protocols, signages and documentation and analysis of sentinel events were stressed upon.  They related all the standards to practical scenarios encountered in the hospitals and thus captured the attention of all the students. Questions from the students were invited and answered duly after every standard was explained.  The sessions were very interactive and energetic.

On 3^rd day of workshop it started with a core discussion between Dr Krishnamurthy and & Dr Pandit about the entire process of documentation. The discussion was for quite some time which concluded on facts like as NABH is voluntary even the best hospitals is not taking the accreditation & secondly with the accreditation, cost will also increase for general public which is unacceptable for poor section in government setup. In the lecture he explained about the cost which patient pay because of lack of quality. Taking the students as future managers he explained all the process regarding accreditation. He talked about the role of quality control manager for organization.

It was an interactive session for students. He also explained about the plan how NABH are spreading awareness about quality improvement. It is ended with a concept of 

KISS    i.e. Keep it simple and straightforward

Students took part very enthusiastically and cleared their doubts about legal aspect & dental accreditation. In this session he also explained about lab & ICU quality management. The session ended with comparison between JCI & NABH and international plans of NABH. By day end students had ample amount of knowledge about the importance of Accreditation.  

Prepared by-:

Dr Nirmal Shah

Dr Priyanka Arland

Aditya Mittal

MBA HHM 14-16

Mahindra & Mahindra Chakan Joins hand with SIHS for AIDS Awareness & prevention campaign

 As we stand poised at the start of the second decade of the new millennia, it is time to take stock of the victories won and losses faced in the on going fight against AIDS, deadliest disease known to man till date. No other words conjure up so much revulsion, fear and despair in the human psyche than AIDS or HIV.

•   Approximately 2.5 million of these cases are in India, where however the prevalence is only about 0.3%

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       Estimated adult and child deaths during 2010 is 250,000.

•      By starting an awareness program one can hope to bring together masses of people and enlighten them on the ill effects of this disease.

•      By bringing together individuals from all walks of life one can give them information on how the disease is contracted by individuals and the ways one can enlist to save themselves from contracting the disease.

•       This knowledge given to the masses will prevent social stigma from becoming rampant and will allow those affected with the disease to live a normal life.

AIDS is a disease that doesn't choose its victims. It affects each and every individual that comes its way.Victims include babies, teen and old people. Their race, sex and age doesn't count when they are affected with the disease.

 Sometime people are infected even if it was no fault of theirs; this is in cases of newborn babies.

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    A constructive, coordinated and consistent program will help orient the community to a higher success rate and in turn will help to combat HIV/AIDS in a better way.

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     It is essential to get more and more people involved in an AIDS awareness program as this goes a long way in reducing incident as people are well informed regarding what to do and what not to do.

•       Student participation in the program will enable them to contribute to nation building.

•      The AIDS Awareness program to be carried out by Mahindra Chakan is a very welcome step in this direction

Col Dr. Vijay Deshpande 

HOD MBA HHM

NABH workshop for Students

SIHS Organises NABH workshop for Students of Batch 2013-2015 & 2014-2016 ...

The workshop will be held on 2nd to 4th December, 2014 at Vishwabhavan auditorium.

SIHS students shine at healthcare conference Clairvoyance-2014, TISS

Congratulations....Dr. Shailly Singh, Dr. Shrishti Upadhyay and Ms. Linda E Fernandez for winning the first prize for Poster Presentation tilted " Portal Technology-Healthcare at a click" 'Need of the hour'  at Clairvoyance-2014, TISS, Mumbai held on 29-30 Nov 2014.

How relevant is Modi’s Swachh Bharat Abhiyan in today’s time…?!!

On 15^th august 2014, the Honarable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi launched the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan with the aim to achieve a clean India by 2^nd October 2019 which incidentally marks 150^th anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. I’m sure quite many of us heard his speech that day on television (or later on in the continuous loops on the news channels) but what I’m more certain of is, many of us also smirked after hearing him out and flipped through the channels on television. Because when it comes to the concept of clean India it is just impossible right?

We have discussed this topic endlessly with friends over coffee many a times at the canteen and share funny stories about how a friend once painted a wall yellow by urinating on it or how the now-famous aunty in the neighborhood throws garbage off her bungalow gate. As usual we talk, we laugh over it and say “India ka kuch nahi ho sakta !”. Everybody knows that what you personally do does make a huge difference and yet we cant even make sure that our fellow classmates don’t leave their half eaten wadapavs under the desk. So does that give you the right to comment on Modi’s vision.

Yes, this campaign may sound superfluous what with the shortage of public bins, shortage of staff for the public cleaning departments and not to forget the in tatters waste disposal system but the least we all can start with is throwing our chewed gums and empty wafers packets into the nearest dustbins and not “smartly” sticking the gums under the first furniture we come across.

We listen to our friends and relatives talking infinitely about the US trip that they recently took and how clean the streets are but during the same conversation they will never miss a chance of criticizing their own country. This they do while actually spitting their pan masala on the road with not a care who gets attractively painted by it. Have we as the citizens of India ever done our bit to keep our surroundings clean?

I would also like to share my personal experience regarding this.   While I was doing my MBBS, many of my classmates and friends would laugh at me when I would pick up their toffee wrappers and pocket them or keep them in my bag and I’m sure many of them would have thought that I was just acting overly smart. And yet quite a few out of them over the years have also got embarrassed when I gave them a look of deepest disgust and in the process have learnt to dispose their wrappers in the dustbin. I take pride to bring about that little change.

But what’s the point, right? You will read this article and still not give a thought to cleanliness because if one around us litters that gives us an automatic right to do the same. In fact that automatically gives you a moral right to stop the person. Remember, that would bring about a small change. And many small drops fills the whole ocean.

Mopping around in our own homes brings no shame then why feel embarrassed for volunteering for a day to clean the streets in your neighborhood? Try doing it or stop talking. Swachh Bharat Abhiyan is neither a political revolution nor a strategy of Modi to earn personal gains. In fact he has not said anything new at all. Since childhood we all have been thought that Cleanliness is Next to Godliness but somewhere along the path of growing up physically we have forgotten that lesson. The government will do its part for this campaign but its success will majorly depend on how inspired the masses are to bring about this change.

A classic example is a group called “ The Ugly Indian” in Bangalore, who are normal people like us and have jobs to work at 6 days a week but what is interesting is their philosophy of “Kaam chalu mooh bandh” or “ Stop talking, Start doing” which managed to clean many public places and the cleanliness was maintained because it inspired the others who would pass those filthy areas earlier but never care.

The relevance of this campaign in today’s time is dependent on us, the people, how we play our role and commit to the duty being an Indian citizen. Each one of us is a well educated individual and its not much if we are expected to keep our surroundings clean or educate others about cleanliness as a small token of gratitude to our country for the rights it has provided to us.

Lastly I would like to requote Shri Narendra Modi

“If a country when united for a cause can non violently defeat one of the most powerful imperial empires in the history of mankind...
Then there is no reason to believe that they cant keep their nation clean”

Dr Priyanka Pawar

MBA HHM Batch 14-16

Impressions 2014 - Revisiting the Alma mater

Admission open for 2 years full time MBA in Hospital & Healthcare Management