Importance of Documentation

In healthcare accreditation documentation forms a framework and skeleton for the healthcare accreditation process. Once the documentation is done as per the specific requirements of the hospitals complying to the statutory and regulatory norms the hospital employees are made aware about the same. The processes are intertwined and correlated with each other.

Types of documentation needed for a hospital

- Permissions / licenses to be procured and listed

- Hospital organisation structure to be finalized

- Hospital mission and vision to be fixed

- Hospital departmental layouts and infrastructural requirements are met with

- Standard operating procedures - for each department as applicable

- Policies- for each department as applicable

- Manuals- for departments as applicable

- Signages and direction plan ( route maps )

- Evacuation plans and diagrams

- Forms and formats of the hospital

- Citizen's charter for responsibilities and rights

- Safety concerns and notifications