La Fundación Ad Qualitatem strengthens its Board with two new additions.
Anna MarÃa Pedraza, President of the College of nursing of Tarragona, and Elena BarberÃa, Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid.
– in addition, creates a new standard aimed at the management of the quality in physiotherapy clinics
Madrid, December 2012.- La Foundation Ad Qualitatem, driven by national health welfare and whose purpose is the promotion of the quality of the socio-sanitary field, has held a meeting of its Board of Trustees in which it has been decided to incorporate two new professionals: Anna Maria Pedraza and Elena barbershop.
Anna MarÃa Pedraza is President of the College of nursing of Tarragona. Pedraza is Diploma by nursing from UNED and is master in research and nursing care also has developed forming activity linked to the world of Pediatrics at the University of Rovira i Virgili, among others.
For its part, Elena BarberÃa is Professor of prophylaxis, Pediatric Dentistry and orthodontics at the Complutense University of Madrid and program director of dental care to patients in the child age. Barbershop is a doctor in medicine and dentistry at the same University. In addition, it belongs to the editorial board of important publications of the dental sector.
These new additions come to reinforce the commitment to quality that promotes the Foundation thanks to their profiles, which highlights the care, teaching and above all research work.
the President of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation Ad Qualitatem, Alfredo Milazzo, flanked by Anna MarÃa Pedraza and Elena BarberÃa, new members of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation.
On the other hand, this meeting has also served to set new goals for next year, among which is the adoption of a new standard, specifically intended for the management of the quality in physiotherapy clinics. Thus, the new label joins 12 that already has the Foundation and whose purpose is the improvement in the services offered by the centres, simplifying management and identify those responsible for them, establishing quality policies and standards comparable, in addition to helping its economic development.
More activity
The meeting has also made assessment of the normalizadota activity of certification.
Specifically in 2012, the Foundation’s activity has been very nearly tripling from the previous year. On the other hand, one of the standards that more draught has had among the professional centros sociosanitarios has been which makes reference to the quality management and health excellence for centers with and without internment. This year, the hospital Infanta Cristina, Infanta Elena, Infanta Leonor and ClÃnico San Carlos, Madrid, as well as the Complejo Asistencial Universitario de Salamanca have chosen Ad Qualitatem Foundation to be accredited. In addition, the Jiménez DÃaz Foundation, of Madrid, San Sebastian Hospital emergency services and preventive medicine of the Hospital San Juan de Alicante; and clinics Vicente, San Sebastian; Santa MarÃa de la Asunción, in Tolosa; and of the pillar in Zaragoza, have credited its centers according to this same standard.
Similarly, 2012 has been the year in which centers have been certified by the standards of recent creation, signal of the increasing activity of the Foundation and its good normalizadota received by the sector. It is the case of the Federación Española de Esclerosis múltiple, Trebalia and the Hospital ClÃnico San Carlos of Madrid, who have opted for different stamps of the Foundation.
The meeting of the Board of Trustees has also served to confirm the effort that in recent months has made Ad Qualitatem by erecting an important actor in the promotion of quality as the key element in the sustainability of the national health system. To achieve this he has promoted the opinion and debate through various forums which have met important personalities of the public health sector. Among them, organized in collaboration with the Royal Academy of medicine and surgery, the Valencian Agency of health and national health insurance.
