Is your hospital high quality?

[geoffrey]

Just watched some guy from some council on Politics with the ever stylish Don Newman. Normally I discredit much from this show so I didn't get names but it started a little research project for me.

This guy stated that there are many hospitals and health care centres in Canada that don't have standardized accreditation. Hospitals without external quality control measures. I thought this guy must be nuts, that sounds like the third world or something, probably some loony left guy whining away.

Then I looked into it.

There is no requirement for a hospital or any health care centre in Canada to be accredited to get government funding. The Federal government have not (though apparently a few provinces have) made the CCHSA's accreditation process mandatory. Apparently many hospitals just don't bother getting checked.

The big fear is apparently that the government will have to spend too much money to bring our hospitals up to the standard, and then we are stuck with longer waiting lines because we have to close sub-standard care centres.

Here is the process:

http://www.cchsa.ca/default.aspx?section=A...itation&group=2

Here is the PDF list of hospitals that choose to be evaluated and have passed:

http://www.cchsa.ca/pdf/AccredList.PDF

I noticed that my neighbourhood 'urgent care centre' (read: 4 hour wait centre) is not accredited.

[tml12]

Just watched some guy from some council on Politics with the ever stylish Don Newman. Normally I discredit much from this show so I didn't get names but it started a little research project for me.

This guy stated that there are many hospitals and health care centres in Canada that don't have standardized accreditation. Hospitals without external quality control measures. I thought this guy must be nuts, that sounds like the third world or something, probably some loony left guy whining away.

Then I looked into it.

There is no requirement for a hospital or any health care centre in Canada to be accredited to get government funding. The Federal government have not (though apparently a few provinces have) made the CCHSA's accreditation process mandatory. Apparently many hospitals just don't bother getting checked.

The big fear is apparently that the government will have to spend too much money to bring our hospitals up to the standard, and then we are stuck with longer waiting lines because we have to close sub-standard care centres.

Here is the process:

http://www.cchsa.ca/default.aspx?section=A...itation&group=2

Here is the PDF list of hospitals that choose to be evaluated and have passed:

http://www.cchsa.ca/pdf/AccredList.PDF

I noticed that my neighbourhood 'urgent care centre' (read: 4 hour wait centre) is not accredited.

I don't think my hospital is either.

[Riverwind]

I noticed that my neighbourhood 'urgent care centre' (read: 4 hour wait centre) is not accredited.

Surrey Memorial Hospital is accredited yet that is an extreme busy hospital that has had a number of well publicized problems with post operative infections. It may be a case that hospitals that have problems seek accreditation to assuage public concerns.

[Hicksey]

Just watched some guy from some council on Politics with the ever stylish Don Newman. Normally I discredit much from this show so I didn't get names but it started a little research project for me.

This guy stated that there are many hospitals and health care centres in Canada that don't have standardized accreditation. Hospitals without external quality control measures. I thought this guy must be nuts, that sounds like the third world or something, probably some loony left guy whining away.

Then I looked into it.

There is no requirement for a hospital or any health care centre in Canada to be accredited to get government funding. The Federal government have not (though apparently a few provinces have) made the CCHSA's accreditation process mandatory. Apparently many hospitals just don't bother getting checked.

The big fear is apparently that the government will have to spend too much money to bring our hospitals up to the standard, and then we are stuck with longer waiting lines because we have to close sub-standard care centres.

Here is the process:

http://www.cchsa.ca/default.aspx?section=A...itation&group=2

Here is the PDF list of hospitals that choose to be evaluated and have passed:

http://www.cchsa.ca/pdf/AccredList.PDF

I noticed that my neighbourhood 'urgent care centre' (read: 4 hour wait centre) is not accredited.

It doesn't surprise me at all. There was accreditation and they had to guarantee certain levels of service I wouldn't have to wait 8 hours for care, wouldn't have to watch the wait for my mother's chemo go so long that it allowed the cancer to spread and required further surgery to take half of her liver and last but not least ... fight with my mother in laws doctor for over a year about her sickness only to find out over a year later it was cancer and by the time it was discovered was now inoperable.

[fixer1]

Hi

My wife works as the desktop publisher for CCHSA(Canadian Concil Health Services Accreditation), and I can tell you that they are a non=profit agency, and yes, hospital accreditation is voluntary, but most Canadian hospitals of any size have been accredited. They also due the same for Nursing homes and all other health services. They are global in that many hospitals from other countries use them for accreditation. They themsleves have to be acreditated and have always been awarded the highest standings for their services. That is why they do Hospitals all over the world.

[geoffrey]

Hi

My wife works as the desktop publisher for CCHSA(Canadian Concil Health Services Accreditation), and I can tell you that they are a non=profit agency, and yes, hospital accreditation is voluntary, but most Canadian hospitals of any size have been accredited. They also due the same for Nursing homes and all other health services. They are global in that many hospitals from other countries use them for accreditation. They themsleves have to be acreditated and have always been awarded the highest standings for their services. That is why they do Hospitals all over the world.

Excellent to hear fixer, I just wish it was mandatory for all health care providers in this country to be accredited by this wonderful organization.