The ceremony to receive the Certificate of Gia An 115 Hospital and CIH Hospital was attended by Dr. Le Duc Luan, Deputy Minister of Health; Associate Professor, Dr. Luong Ngoc Khue - Director of the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Management, Ministry of Health; Mr. Pham Thanh Kien, Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council; Mr. Duong Anh Duc, Vice Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee; Associate Professor, Dr. Tang Chi Thuong, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health; Mr. Kreso Antonio Paliska - Senior Vice President of AACI; Ms. Tran Thi Lam, Founder, Chairwoman of Hoa Lam Group and the Board of Directors of the two hospitals.
Deputy Minister of Health Le Duc Luan speaks
Speaking at the ceremony, Deputy Minister of Health Le Duc Luan acknowledged the contributions of Gia An 115 Hospital and City International Hospital in their efforts to improve people's health care services, especially the achievement of AACI - USA international standard certification, which is an important achievement for the Vietnamese health sector. In particular, some specialized departments such as cardiovascular, neurology - stroke, endocrinology, orthopedics, etc. have achieved many outstanding achievements in medicine.
Gia An 115 Hospital and CIH Hospital received AACI quality certification from the US
To achieve AACI's international certification for quality and patient safety, Gia An 115 Hospital and CIH Hospital had to meet a strict set of standards including 3 modules, 30 chapters with a total of more than 140 different standards, focusing especially on aspects such as treatment quality, patient care and safety, infection control, clinical guidelines, risk management, resource management and continuous training for medical staff...
Dr. Truong Vinh Long, Director of Gia An 115 Hospital, shared that for more than 5 consecutive months, since May 2023, Gia An 115 Hospital as well as CIH Hospital have focused resources on planning and implementing training activities for doctors, medical staff, and department staff according to AACI standards, while building and standardizing the process system, improving service quality, monitoring and evaluating to optimize performance... to best meet this set of international standards.
Dr. Truong Vinh Long, Director of Gia An 115 Hospital shared at the event.
Dr. Truong Vinh Long added that the advantage is that Gia An 115 Hospital already has a modern infrastructure and equipment system, and is always proactive in implementing infection control and improving the quality of medical examination and treatment, and has experience in practice to achieve international standards and certifications, such as ISO 15189:2012 in the field of Hematology - Biochemistry testing, Gold Treatment Quality Certification of the World Stroke Organization or Asian Hospital Management Award (HMA)... Therefore, achieving AACI quality standards can be considered a new step forward for the hospital in its efforts to improve service quality and patient safety.
In addition to achieving AACI certification, on this occasion, Gia An 115 Hospital has also been awarded the Platinum Certification by the World Stroke Organization (WSO). This is a worthy achievement from Gia An 115 Hospital's efforts to improve service quality and stroke treatment effectiveness. Previously, Gia An 115 was also the first unit in Vietnam to coordinate the installation and deployment of the entire RAPID artificial intelligence software in stroke diagnosis and treatment, since June 2019.
Gia An 115 Hospital is located in the gateway area of the West, where modern diagnostic and treatment methods are applied, providing the community with high-standard medical services. Here, the hospital has performed many advanced techniques such as cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease interventions, cancer treatment with advanced techniques, endoscopic surgery, minimally invasive intervention for liver - biliary - pancreatic diseases, orthopedic trauma, blood ultrafiltration... while constantly improving the quality of service to bring the highest satisfaction to patients.
AACI (American Accreditation Commission International) is one of the world's leading organizations providing healthcare quality accreditation and certification of clinical excellence. AACI is headquartered in the US and has a network of offices in many countries around the world such as the UK, Canada, Spain, Portugal, Singapore, Japan, etc.
AACI first issued the Certification Standards in 2014, which are applied to many fields and types of health care such as: Hospitals, dentistry, primary health care, outpatient services, physical therapy... Based on international practices on quality and safety in health care, the AACI standards have been recognized by the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua). Therefore, it can be said that AACI certification is considered a symbol of certification in the health care industry, recognizing high-quality health care services that meet strict international standards.
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