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Indonesian Hospitals' Accreditation to Be Based on Patient Safety

From Tempo · () Indonesian

Translated from Indonesian, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.

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  • Indonesia's Ministry of Health is revamping its hospital accreditation system to focus on patient safety and clinical outcomes.
  • Hospitals will be evaluated in real-time based on survival rates and patient safety, with the potential for accreditation status to be lowered if performance declines.
  • The new system aims to protect the public by ensuring hospitals consistently meet quality standards, moving beyond traditional five-year administrative evaluations.

Indonesia's Ministry of Health is set to overhaul its hospital accreditation system, shifting the focus from administrative evaluations to clinical outcomes and patient safety. Minister of Health Budi Gunadi Sadikin announced that the quality assessment of healthcare facilities will now be measured in real-time based on patient survival rates and safety metrics.

If a hospital has a high rate of operational failure, we can immediately lower its accreditation status.

— Budi Gunadi SadikinMinister of Health on the new hospital accreditation system.

Under the new mechanism, a hospital's accreditation status could be downgraded mid-term if its performance, particularly regarding surgical success rates, falls below acceptable standards. "If a hospital has a high rate of operational failure, we can immediately lower its accreditation status," stated Budi, as quoted by the Ministry of Health's website.

This initiative aims to provide greater public protection by ensuring continuous adherence to quality standards, moving away from the previous system of evaluations conducted only every five years. Director General of Advanced Health Services at the Ministry of Health, Azhar Jaya, clarified that the assessment of medical success will not be based on absolute achievement, as no medical procedure guarantees 100% success. Instead, evaluations will reference national average standards for service success, developed collaboratively by the Ministry of Health, professional bodies, and associations, while also considering international best practices.

This is a form of protection for public safety.

— Budi Gunadi SadikinMinister of Health on the purpose of the new accreditation system.

Azhar also emphasized that clinical outcomes are not the sole criterion. Hospital capacity will continue to be assessed based on the readiness of human resources, facilities, infrastructure, and medical equipment. The implementation of this new accreditation system will be phased, with full adoption contingent upon the readiness of the system, particularly the integration of hospital data.

Therefore, the assessment will be based on the standard and success rate of national average services, not absolute service success.

— Azhar JayaDirector General of Advanced Health Services on how success rates will be measured.
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Originally published by Tempo in Indonesian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.

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