Managers Opinion About the Implementation of Hospital Accreditation in Georgia

Abstract

In healthcare system of Georgia is not implemented accreditation of medical organizations, which is well approved tool for quality management. In 2010 “Independent Hospital Association of Georgia”, which united only 12 hospitals at that time, tried to conduct selfassesement of the hospitals, but only five of them took part in it. The aim of the current study was to assess the prospects of implementation of the hospital accreditation system in Georgia through studying the opinion of managers employed in hospitals. 66 different levels managers from 46 hospitals took part in the survey. 97% of the managers think that accreditation is necessary, 84,8% - that accreditation should be obligatory and should meet international requirements, but only for 51,5% of managers was known accreditation requirements of any country. Only 17,4% of hospitals had an attempt to obtain any kind of accreditation, 75 % from them were successful and 25% were unsuccessful. Based on the analysis of the results of the study we can conclude that without active intervention and regulation from the Government hospital accreditation process will not be able to start