The Impact of Hospital Accreditation System: Perspective of Organizational Learning

Abstract

Objectives: Organizational learning is used to being a very important topic about hospital management and even is identified as the source of a hospital's competitive strength. The study tries to explore the correlation between organizational learning and hospital accreditation awareness from the medical institution operation management's point of view. Methods: We designed the questionnaire based on the cross-section survey, which included a total of 498 hospitals throughout Taiwan as the subjects (1922 copies of questionnaire were distributed, 4 copies per hospital). As a result, 306 returned the questionnaire (995 copies of valid questionnaire), a valid response rate was 49.94%. Then, we conducted the multiple regression analysis. Results: The factors critical to the operations management accreditation awareness include age, hospital ownership, hospital lever and team learning (p < 0.001). The factors critical to the medical care accreditation awareness include age, education level and team learning (p < 0.001). The team learning will produce positive effect to the hospital accreditation awareness. Conclusions: The organizational continuous learning may enhance the team learning through hospital accreditation operations to ensure that the medical treatment system may provide safe, valid and reliable healthcare and found the hospitals' competitive strength.

Implementation Standards Access to Hospitals and Continuity Of Service

“…It is the same as the awareness of accreditation at the education level that is higher than the diploma or below. 8 These results are in line with the results of observations and interviews at Manambai Abdulkadir Hospital, in which nurses with diploma III are care less about organizing accreditation, along with several factors that influence their noncompliance in implementing SPO, including work culture systems, limited facilities, lack of socialization, compensation systems, and motivation. The role of employees is very dominant in patient care.…”

“…Based on the research conducted by Yu H. Yan, there is a relationship between the socialization of the team and awareness of hospital accreditation, namely awareness of hospital accreditation can be improved through team learning. 8 This is in line with Wu's research, which believes that the value of socializing teams from medical staff can achieve the goal of improving the quality of medical care. The stronger organizational learning, the more likely it is to integrate with the aim of hospital accreditation and promote professional development.…”

Striving for Performance Excellence: Ten Years’ Experience &amp; Impact of Accreditation on Quality, Safety, and Overall Performance in King Saud University Medical City (KSUMC) – A Mixed-Methods Study

“…One tool that is frequently used in quality management within healthcare institutions and is an internationally recognized evaluation strategy is accreditation [3]. Accreditation is a continuous quality improvement process by which external organizations conduct a quality assessment of healthcare organizations [4].…”

“…Since the process is used to provide benchmarks and to assess internal as well as external mechanisms, hospital accreditation may lead to an improvement in the accountability, quality, e ciency, and effectiveness of a healthcare institution [6,7]. It can also be used to promote capacity building, interdisciplinary team effectiveness, and the e cient use of hospital resources which may improve organizational performance [3]. Consequently, fully accredited hospitals have been shown to have lower mortality rates, better respect for patient rights, and increased job satisfaction among healthcare staff [1].…”

Institutional accreditation by nursing education and training quality assurance: Perspectives of heads of private nursing institutions in South Africa

“…[3,4] Accreditation is based on the premise that adherence to evidence-based standards will produce higher quality nurses that will provide efficient patient care, in an increasingly safe environment. [5,6] The quality gradients are embedded into the nursing education institutions accreditation process. [6] Nicklin [1] asserts that the accrediting body periodically or cyclically assesses the institution to measure the institutional performance against pre-established standards.…”