Partners
Joint Commission International (JCI), at present, has two international partners for the purpose of offering both a national and international accreditation award at the same time. Fundación para la Acreditación y Desarrollo Asistencial (FADA) is the accreditation partner for Spain, and Associação Brasileira de Acreditação de Sistemas e Serviços de Saúde (ABA), previously CBA, is the accreditation partner in Brazil. These partners use the same standards, survey process and accreditation decision rules as JCI and the accreditation decisions are jointly decided. These partners are however, able to provide accreditation surveys and support accredited organizations with surveyors and staff that understand the respective national health care system, and bring greater language and cultural relevance to the accreditation process.
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Fundacion para la Acreditacion y Desarrollo Asistencial (FADA)
is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote continuous quality improvement in healthcare and social care organizations through the use of external assessment. Since 1996, FADA has a partnership agreement with JCI to jointly provide accreditation services in Spain using JCI standards. This partnership agreement has supported the spread of JCI accreditation among organization in Spain, promoting the development of patient safety and performance improvement methods and techniques. JCI-FADA activities are jointly performed by USA and Spanish professionals.
Additional information:
fada@fadq.org
or +932076608
Visit the FADA website
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Associação Brasileira de Acreditação de Sistemas e Serviços de Saúde
(ABA)
is a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to improve the quality of care in health care organizations throughout Brazil. To help fulfill its vision to become the champion in quality improvement excellence in Brazil, ABA has partnered with JCI since 2000 to provide accreditation and certification services. ABA’s staff and surveyors are health care leaders and experts in medicine, nursing, management, quality improvement and safety.
Visit the ABA website
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JCI also has a valued partnership with Progea S.r.l., a leading international consulting firm based in Italy. Founded in 1987 by a group of university professors and experts in economics and public administration, Progea's mission is to support change in public and private health care organizations through the pursuit of quality and efficiency, and to provide health care management and professionals the tools and skills to achieve desired goals. In 2001, Progea began collaborating with JCI. This ongoing partnership has enriched the availability of quality tools and resources JCI offers in the international health care arena, and has served to spread the JCI methodology among hospital organizations in Italy.
Visit Progea's website
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In 2009 JCI commenced a valued partnership with act Management Consulting GmbH (act MC), a leading Austrian management consulting firm based in Vienna, Austria. act MC was founded in March 2003 and has its client focus in the public sector and the Top 500 Austrian companies. act MC is part of the BDO group, the fifth largest professional service firm with 30,000 employees in 107 countries worldwide.
JCI and act MC strive to accomplish the goals of improved quality of care and patient safety in Austria by offering joint consulting and trainings for Austrian health professionals and decision makers in health care. The partnership facilitates the support for establishing national and regional quality assurance systems as well as the support for developments in the field of patient safety in Austrian health care organizations.
Visit act MC website
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Accreditation standards, policies, procedures and evaluation methods evolve and change on a continuous basis. Thus, JCI makes a significant investment in keeping our consultants, surveyors and accreditation partners up to date through continuous education and re-training. Please note that only those individuals and partners specifically referenced or listed on the JCI web site have benefited from this continuous education process.