Acreditation (JCI)

The first accredited hospital in Turkey

Memorial Hospital is the first JCI (Joint Commission International) accredited health center in Turkey, and 21st in the world.

Our medical and logistic departments are planned and operated based on JCIA (Joint Commission International Accreditation) standards.

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Accreditation designates that certain standards that are necessary to improve the quality of healthcare and to eliminate or reduce risks are met by health organizations. It is usually conducted by independent non profit organizations.

Improving the quality of patient care, ensuring patient safety, reducing risks (both for the patients and employees), permanence of the studies are apparent engagements of our institution.

Briefly, the accreditation aims to:

• Improve the quality
• Reduce costs
• Increase efficiency
• Increase and reinforce the reliability of the institution
• Improve health care services management
• Provide education
• Improve job satisfaction
• Secure equitable measuring and evaluation

JCIA (Joint Commission International Accreditation) and JCAHO (Joint Commission on accreditation of healthcare Organizations)

JCIA, was founded in 1998 as a part of the JCAHO. JCI's mission is to provide accreditation services in order to improve health care quality of the society. JCAHO is a leader on quality healthcare services for more than 75 years and is an independent, not-for-profit organization that evaluates and accredits more than 20.000 healthcare organizations.

Joint Commission Standards

JCIA made the first move to respond the increased demand on standard based evaluation of the health care. JCIA aims to impose objective standard series and processes to health care organizations of international societies, create continuous and permanent improvement programs and determine standards considering local needs. The philosophy of the standards is based on quality management and continuous improvement principles. Standards are set for all activities and there are basic standards that the institution needs to meet. There are high standards for patient safety and patient care. Accreditation includes legal, religious and cultural factors of the country where the health care institution is located.