SafeCare Initiative

SafeCare has grown out of a global initiative, launched in March 2011 in Cape Town, South Africa, to introduce a comprehensive quality improvement program using internationally recognized standards to improve health care delivery.

 

The SafeCare Foundation, a cooperation between JCI, the South African-based Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA), and the PharmAccess Foundation of the Netherlands, is designed for health care providers in resource-poor settings to assist them in step-wise quality improvement and the delivery of safer care to their patients. As a new Foundation with its international board and its secretariat based in Amsterdam, SafeCare will be able to expand its knowledge and capacities even further and build on the concrete experience and skills of its founding organizations.

 

 

 

In this short video two clinic owners explain the benefits of introducing SafeCare's quality standards in their clinics. They explain the importance of raising the standards for staff, patients and the surrounding community. SafeCare has developed internationally recognized quality standards for health facilities in resource-restricted countries. It offers a stepwise program to improve the quality and safety of the clinics. The Health Insurance Fund introduces SafeCare's program in all the clinics participating in the insurance program, amongst others in the clinics shown in this video.