American Accreditation Commission International

Acute Stroke Care Standards now ready for Consultation (Oct 2)

The goal of this new level of Clinical Excellence certification is to recognize the need for improvement in Stroke Care Centers. Acute Stroke Care Certification is an opportunity for healthcare organizations providing acute stroke intervention treatment to demonstrate their commitment to excellence. Certification standards help organise the disease clinical management excellence program.

AACI won the first contract for Maternity Clinical Excellence Certification (Jul 31)

AACI announced it had contracted BGP Kranj maternity hospital as the first Center of Clinical Excellence for its new Maternity clinical certification, recognising exceptional processes and an approach to maternity that exceeds current standards.

AACI launches world’s most comprehensive maternity service clinical certification (Jun 30)

AACI have launched a new International Clinical Excellence Certification for Maternity Services. The format is the first to successfully merge an outcome based and process driven assessment, and our risk based approach allows us to concentrate on those risk areas where maternity services feel that there are potential enhancements to be made.

UPK Ljubljana Hospital chooses AACI International to improve quality and patient safety (Jun 4)

AACI announced today that UKP LJubljana Hospital has chosen AACI International accreditation program to improve the quality of health care in its 600-bed facility.

So what? Experts draw lessons from across Europe on strategies to assess quality of care (Apr 29)

Today, the expert group on health systems performance assessment (HSPA) composed of European countries health authorities and international organisations, and co-chaired by Sweden and the Commission, publishes its first report: "So What? Strategies across Europe to assess quality of care".

Maternity Standards now ready for Consultation (Apr 13)

Babies and mothers have unique issues that require a Standard specifically tailored to meet their specific needs.The goal of this new level of Clinical certification is to recognize the need for improvement in Maternity services. The AACI Clinical Certification Program offers a series of advanced and topical requirements designed to help healthcare professionals to improve the quality of their clinical activity.

New Study Links Zika Virus to Microcephaly (Feb 16)

Researchers in Ljubljana, Slovenia, found the mosquito-borne virus in the brain tissue of a microcephalic fetus that had been carried by a 25-year-old European woman who had symptoms of the disease in the 13th week of her pregnancy, when she was living in Brazil.