Shillong, Aug 23: Nazareth Hospital, Shillong, has achieved a significant feather in its cap by receiving the certificate of accreditation from National Accreditation Board for hospitals & Healthcare providers (NABH). This places Nazareth Hospital amongst about 1000 hospitals from all over the country to achieve this accreditation.

This has been achieved after compliance was assessed to hundreds of laid down standards. NABH accreditation focuses on patient safety and quality of the delivery of services by the hospitals in a changing healthcare environment. The accreditation will be valid for four years.

The process towards NABH certification was started by Nazareth Hospital in 2016, when it received the entry level certification – the first hospital in Meghalaya to do so.

In the recent past, several new facilities have been started at Nazareth Hospital. These include state of the art modular OT complex which allows greater patient safety and convenience while complex surgeries are performed by specialists and super specialists, new labour room, new paediatrics ward, neonatal intensive care unit with greater number of beds, new paediatric intensive care unit. At the same time, highly skilled human resources in the form of neurosurgeons, paediatric surgeons and cardiologists in addition to many others services to patients.

A significant addition to the existing services is MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) which is a non-invasive medical imaging test that produces detailed images of almost every internal structure in the human body, including the organs, bones, muscles and blood vessels.

Laboratory services of Nazareth Hospital received NABL (National Accreditation Board for testing and calibration laboratories) certification in 2017 with biochemistry and pathology but have since progressed after several cycles of certification to include biochemistry, microbiology, molecular diagnostics, hematology and clinical pathology.

Laboratory accreditation is a procedure by which an authoritative body gives formal recognition of technical competence for specific tests/ measurements, based on third party assessment and following international standards.

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