At the Gemelli JCI accreditation, the ‘stamp’ of world excellence in health care

The Gemelli Irccs University Hospital Foundation in Rome has obtained the accreditation of the Joint Commission International (JCI), a world leader in accreditation in the healthcare sector. Out of over 300 standards and 1,200 international indicators of excellence, subjected to the scrutiny of a rigorous commission of evaluators, the indicators that were ‘not completely satisfied’ were just 17. “A complete success, therefore, also underlined by the words of the international verifiers who stated to ‘have known an extraordinary hospital of which the collaborators who work within it must be proud, the city of Rome and the whole of our country’ “, highlighted Gemelli who presented the accreditation in a public conference with the minister of Health Roberto Speranza and the Councilor for Health of the Lazio Region Alessio D’Amato. For Councilor D’Amato: “We have a stronger Gemini in a stronger Lazio Region”. Minister Speranza in his speech thanked “for all the work done by Gemelli in this year and a half of the incessant fight against the coronavirus. Obtaining such a prestigious recognition, such as JCI accreditation, is an indication of the quality of the work done in recent years” . The JCI method is inspired by the continuous improvement of the quality of care and the parameters to be met refer to all aspects of the hospital organization, from patient care to the organization and management of the facility: the methods of assistance, patient education and family members, infrastructure security and care practices, staff qualification and training, care-associated infection control and information management. The Jci “Gold Seal of Approval’® is therefore a really important milestone, but also a starting point because the quality and safety of patients are a continuous journey. As well as accreditation, which will undergo a new evaluation. for the renewal in three years “, remarked the Gemini. “The goal we are celebrating today – said Franco Anelli, rector of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart – is the result of the work of the last 10 years, since we decided to make the Gemelli Polyclinic an autonomous body. Gemelli and the University Cattolica remain a unitary and inseparable reality. This international recognition, based on important quality parameters, qualifies the Policlinico Gemelli as an ‘Academic Hospital’: a place of research, treatment and teaching of excellence. Once again the Catholic University confirms its constant modernity and capacity for innovation typical of an institution born 100 years ago in Milan and 60 years ago in Rome with the establishment of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery “.” It is precisely the unity of the Polyclinic and the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery of the ” Università Cattolica la forza del Gemelli – added the dean Rocco Bellantone – Thousands are the doctors and health professionals that we have trained by holding My faith in our mission to take care of the frail person. In recent years we have further strengthened ourselves also on the international level by calling teachers from prestigious institutions to work with us. Today we are reaping the even more significant fruits in the year of the pandemic with the recognition of ‘Newsweek’ which places Gemelli as the first Italian hospital and now with the JCI certification. ” preparation to the limit of feasibility for a hospital of our size and complexity – recalled Marco Elefanti, general director of the Agostino Gemelli Irccs University Polyclinic Foundation – In Italy the largest hospital accredited by JCI had so far been Humanitas, which has 800 beds , and in Europe the only center with numbers similar to ours is the Policlinico of the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). Today we want to give credit to all our collaborators and to those who guided them in this delicate and important path, which highlighted a system of values, skills and competences of this Polyclinic: this recognition was a further demonstration of the level of coi involvement and extraordinary commitment of the people who work there. An organization like ours must continually improve: this entails the need for new resources that can hopefully correlate the financing system with quality indicators “.” Accreditation – recalled Andrea Cambieri, Gemelli health director – was a long path, crossed by the pandemic period, during which about 8 thousand people worked, in a process that passes through the involvement and conviction of people. The Gemelli Polyclinic is therefore above all an institution that learns. Therefore, the technology of knowledge was fundamental, which constantly brings all the care information to our operators, and the measurement of the patient experience, without forgetting the attention to stakeholders and the world of volunteering. The JCI model is very close to our vision of patient care and safety. ”