Welcome to New & Returning Members
New Members in February 2020
Sociedad Chilena de la Calidad Asistencial SOCCAS - The Chilian Society of Quality Assistance - SOCCAS is a technical-scientific organization that promotes and contributes to the continuous improvement of the quality of healthcare and of the services related to healthcare, with the purpose of achieving the satisfaction of the expectations of healthcare users in Chile. Find out more - https://www.soccas.cl/
AAR Healthcare Kenya - From a small business with a specialty in the evacuation of medical and accident casualties, both by road and air, AAR is now the leading private healthcare firm in East Africa boasting over 100,000 in membership. They believe in serving their patients with the human touch, connecting with them and ensuring they feel completely safe with them. Find out more - https://www.aar-healthcare.com/ke/
Renewing Members in February 2020
The Office of Health Standards Compliance (OHSC), South Africa - The OHSC is an independent body established to ensure that both public and private health establishments in South Africa comply with the required health standards. They act on behalf of the people of South Africa in guiding, monitoring and enforcing health care safety and quality standards in health establishments. Find out more - http://ohsc.org.za/
The International Board of Medicine and Surgery, United States - IBMS offers healthcare providers worldwide visibility and credibility. IBMS certified members are physicians, surgeons and dentists, other medical professionals, and Centers of Healthcare Excellence (Hospitals/Clinics) whose credentials have been reviewed to ensure standards of care. Find out more - https://www.ibms.us/
BreastScreen Australia - BreastScreen Australia is the national breast cancer screening programme. BreastScreen Australia aims to continue to reduce deaths from breast cancer through early detection of the disease. Find out more - http://www.cancerscreening.gov.au/internet/screening/publishing.nsf/Content/breast-screening-1
Italian Network for Safety in Healthcare - INSH is a national association, founded in 2017 to bring together health professionals with a passion for safety and quality in care. The aim of the Association is to contribute to the dissemination of the culture of quality and safety of care at national and international level and to promote scientific and training activities in support of this diffusion. Find out more - https://www.insafetyhealthcare.it/
Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy - LIHP is a research and teaching centre focussed on six thematic areas within healthcare policy: hospital quality and safety, health system organization, health law, health economics, healthcare ethics and communication. It is a Collaborating Centre for the World Health Organization for Human Resources for Health Research and Policy. Find out more - https://www.kuleuven.be/samenwerking/ligb/Home
Organización para la Excelencia de la Salud, Colombia - OES is a private, non-profit organization, founded in December 1991 with the explicit purpose of fostering and leading the improvement of the quality of care in health through the management of sector institutions. Find out more - http://www.oes.org.co/
ACGME International - ACGME-I advance health care by assessing the quality of physicians’ education through a voluntary, peer-review evaluation process that benefits the public and improves the quality of teaching, learning, research, and professional practice throughout the world. Find out more - https://www.acgme-i.org/