Ad Qualitatem presents the standard for emergency services in the 3rd National Conference of SHEMESH.
new label developed by AdQ and Shemesh.
Spain, March of 2013. The Ad Qualitatem Foundation has presented within the framework of the 3rd National Conference on the safety of the patient in accident and emergency, held in Zaragoza, the quality standard to establish accreditation standards for hospital emergency services. Manager to publicize the Semes-Ad Qualitatem accreditation model has been the auditor of the Foundation, José Antonio Moreno RuÃz, who also outlined the current situation of sanitary accreditation, its objectives, its methodology and its results and consequences and has presented an example of accreditation of emergency service and the method of puntuacion standards.
Thus, over two hundred attendees, among them, the main directors of emergency services, knew in detail the characteristics and advantages of the new label.
The standard, which has been developed together with the Spanish society of health emergency medicine and is based on the model of accreditation Shemesh services of emergency hospital, existing since 2006. It consists of 400 standards, divided into 9 criteria and sub-criteria 32 – according to the structure of the European quality – management model.
These standards, clearly defined, allow hospital emergency services professionals a complete and exhaustive exercise of self-assessment, which must be formalised and completed with a double assessment, which shall be carried out by analysts and Ad Qualitatem Shemesh, which allows these services get, according to the given scorean external accreditation, of the Foundation Ad Qualitatem and Shemesh in five different quality levels.
members table accreditation; Marta Serrano GarcÃa (Aenor); José Antonio Moreno Ruiz (Foundation Ad Qualitatem), Juan Carlos Garcia Aisa (Aragonese health service) and Yolanda Mingueza Sebastian (Fundación Mapfre).
about the Foundation
Ad Qualitatem is a non-profit organization that seeks to respond to the needs of professional healthcare in Spain in terms of quality and excellence. The Foundation manages the label that bears his name emitting, in his case, the corresponding certification for its use, and also to monitor their proper use. In this way, since its inception in 2004, has created and certified quality standards for various social fields, some of them from the hand of important institutions, among others, the General Council of the colleges of pharmacists.
About Shemesh
The Spanish society of Medicine of urgencies and emergencies (SHEMESH) is a scientific society which brings together 8,000 professionals, sanitary, medical, nursing and emergency technicians, which has, among its founding objectives, the mission promoted the on emergencies and emergency health care systems guaranteeing coverage to the entire populationas well as ensure the quality of care and patient safety. Since 2006, SHEMESH has developed a model of accreditation for accident and emergency services, which is the basis on which is based the new model of accreditation Shemesh-Ad Qualitatem SHEMESH commitment for continuous improvement of the quality of care has been recognized by various entities, including the Premio Fundación Avedis Donabedian 2011.
