Hospital secures international seal of approval
(CNS): The Cayman Islands Health Services Authority has received hospital accreditation from the Joint Commission International (JCI) following what HSA officials said was a “rigorous onsite review of its facilities” across the islands earlier this month. While local laboratories have been accredited for several years, until now neither of the HSA hospitals, its clinics or other sites have had the accreditation.
HSA Chief Executive Officer Lizzette Yearwood said that getting the seal of approval involved the dedication and exceptional work of HSA employees, from the board members to kitchen staff.
“Achieving accreditation on our first attempt was no easy feat,” she said. “It involved years of preparation and facilities upgrades, including the renovation of our operating rooms and nursing stations. We identified all risk areas, increased standardisation and demonstrated our unwavering commitment to excellence in quality of care and patient safety, in compliance with the highest international standards.”
The Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval is recognised by the international healthcare community as a symbol of quality that reflects a healthcare organisation’s commitment to providing safe and high-quality patient care.
During the accreditation process, surveyors evaluated compliance with global hospital standards spanning several areas, including emergency management, environment of care, infection prevention and control, leadership, medication management, and rights and responsibilities of the patient. They also conducted onsite observations and staff interviews.
The JCI’s standards are developed in consultation with healthcare experts and providers, measurement experts and patients. They are informed by scientific literature and expert consensus to help healthcare organisations measure, assess and improve performance.
The JCI may accredit entire hospital services or only specific departments within hospitals. The inspections involve the evaluation of the quality of clinical services, patient safety, the competence of medical and administrative staff, the quality of equipment and the policies, protocols and procedures used. To maintain accreditation hospitals are inspected every three years.
HSA Board Chairman Osbourne Bodden said the accreditation was a testament to the outstanding level of healthcare services in the Cayman Islands. “This is in alignment with the government’s vision to improve healthcare across all three islands, which now has positioned HSA among the best hospitals in the world,” he added.
See more information on the Joint Commission International here.
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Category: Health, Medical Health
I had major emergency surgery at HSA. Tell me how the doctor managed to leave 3 stitches in. Had to go back, get cut open again to remove them and restitched. Went back to get those removed. Guess what? They left 3 more in! and had the audacity to charge me for their incompetence. Their bill will ve waiting to be paid 😊
The world class service that billed my wife for tests while she was in health city having her gall bladder removed and kept sending reminders even after we sent them evidence of the procedure at Health City …..
What a joke, I had a hernia operation here and was told I didn’t need to come back as I had dissolvable stitches. 3 weeks later when on vacation I was taking my own stitches out with a pin/badge – pulled out an inch long stitch that resembled fishing line.
If things are so great why are patients left in the corridor because of lack of beds to admit them? The Hospital was built at a time the population in Grand Cayman was half of what it is today (@90K ?). God save us if we have a real mass medical emergency.
What does this mean we can subsidize them another 2M?
Afraid we will need to fund the hospital as there is no other option. We can live without fancy roads or schools..but not without a hospital.
Congratulations to Lizette and her team. I can truly say that I have over many decades received good quality medical care at the HSA. As for the Minister of Health, well that is a different story. A few days ago she was at the Fire Department for their International Day celebrations and the first comment out of her mouth was ” I don’t even know why I am here” then she proceeded to embarrass the firemen/women by telling them rubbish along the line of ” being proud of themselves, they will succeed because look at her where she has reach” little does she know but the fire department officers are miles ahead of her.
world class. My congrats to all.
You notice how quiet the wuless Minister is and how her name wasn’t mentioned? You only see her attending events and making comments when it has to do with a certain facility up east. HSA and its employees are the red headed step child, the self hate around here is real to the core.
To be honest, wutless is probably being a bit too charitable. What has she accomplished since coming to office and drawing a paycheck? Sometimes we need to be careful what we wish for, the 1 man 1 vote was a great disservice to these Islands, we solved the McKeeva problem and coat tails in West Bay, but then allowed individuals like the Health Minister to become Parliamentarians. During her 4 years, the country will pay hundreds of thousands and have nothing to show for it but prepared speeches read in Parliament and media briefings. Where are the policies? Where is the legislation? Where are the solutions? Where is the anything?
Fundamentally, this goes back to lay at the feet of the Premier who banded this group together just so he could lead. I had a lot of respect for the Premier as knowing him for many years has shown that he is kind and has a good heart; however, what you have visited on this country by the people you have chosen for your Cabinet weighs heavy on the hearts of many of us Caymanians.
can you tell me what the Premier’s options were? As if he had many.
Went to the hsa walk in clinic the other day only to find it had been replaced by a mental health room, for teens only and probably empty. The new walk in was moved to a room a 5th the size and was jam packed with people waiting. Thank you CIG and Sabrina, politics at it’s best.
I agree that the teenage facility was just pure politics and does not cater to 5% of the people the previous walk-in clinic did, but to be fair, the urgent care facility is the same size as the previous walk in clinic, just laid out differently.
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congratulations on achieving this recognition.
How did they pull that off?
When I’ve been there, I’ve seen anything BUT rigorously maintained standards. They certainly couldn’t have evaluated doctor/nurse engagement with patients.