Bureau Veritas certifies excellence in rehabilitation centers - ANSA.it

Into A certification that gives the patient the best guarantee possible to receive, in various rehabilitation centers, more uniform treatments, verifiable and monitored continuously, with levels of appropriateness of care well defined. At this point the model of accreditation of rehabilitation centers, merged in a manual that will be ready by the end of June made by REHA TICINO, a network of rehabilitation Swiss, along with Bureau Veritas certification body for decades also active in the health sector.

This project, developed in collaboration with REHA TICINO, represents an investment consistent with the Mission of Bureau Veritas, to innovation and progress. Bureau Veritas Italy, in the field of health, has always been involved in the promotion of excellence, says Diego D’amato, Director of the Division Certification Bureau Veritas Italy. The partnership with REHA TICINO, explains Massimo Dutton, Director of the Department of Health Bureau Veritas, which the encounter with reality as interesting as that of the network rehabilitation of the Canton Ticino, tip” to develop a standard of excellence for the care and rehabilitation in the field of stationary and ambulatory.”

Established in 2007, REHA TICINO is a network that includes all establishments and services, public and private, which are concerned with rehabilitation in the canton of Ticino, the first Swiss health network in the field of rehabilitation to achieve – in April 2011 – the certificate of conformity to ISO 9001:2008. One of the strengths of our network of rehabilitation, explains Gianni Roberto Rossi, Director of REHA TICINO,” is to have a design and a common language”” that allow you to achieve economies of scale” as well as” break down the information asymmetry” in health care, quality of performance reporting”” uniform among centers belonging to the network. The quality of the performance of the network, said Angela Greek, head of quality and safety of patients REHA ticino, is guaranteed by ‘”care intensity, the composition of the rehabilitation programs (highly individualized) and the high professio nalism and specialization of health personnel “.

Starting from the experience in Switzerland, the REHA TICINO together with Bureau Veritas created a standard that can measure the levels about the facilities, the care and professionalism that can define – in Italy and European level – the excellence of rehabilitation services. Our goal, added the Director Rossi, is “to promote the quality and safety of patients in rehabilitation international, spreading and sharing with colleagues working in the same industry, the knowledge acquired over the years.” The manual of standards, precise Angela Greek, which brought together over 300 hours of work of experts, using as a basis the existing international standards and models have been fitted in the health sector and in addition provides technical and organizational requirements, industry-specific rehabilitation. Already validated in the first audit on 24 April, the document will be ready in the final version by the end of June and then be available to cent ers that want to apply for accreditation.