The Mumbai based Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital has become the first hospital in the Western India to receive the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare organisations (NABH) certification for the quality of patient care.

The accreditation has given on the basis of stringent patient care standards to validate the quality of care through compliance assessments against 500 criteria, critical to the efficient functioning of a healthcare setting. There is a strong emphasis on patient rights and benefits, safety, control and prevention of infections in hospitals, practicing good patient care protocols and better clinical outcome. The standards relate to the local culture and systems, yet at the same time, are benchmarked with the best International standards.

Dr Sujit Chatterjee, CEO, Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital, said, "The hospital's recent certification of ISO 9001:2000 also helped tremendously in putting things in the right direction. The NABH accreditation motivates us to perform even better and set even higher standards".

He further stated that the NABH accredited hospitals focus on aspects such as patient rights and benefits, patient safety, control and prevention of infections in hospitals, practicing of good patient care protocols and better and controlled clinical outcome.

Dr L H Hiranandani Hospital, which was located at Powai in Mumbai, was commissioned in February 2004 and in just three years of its operations the hospital has already established itself as the preferred healthcare destination and has benefited patients from India and abroad through the high-end services in orthopaedics, cardiology, obstetrics and gynaecology and several other specialities, Dr Chatterjee added.