A Proposed Adaptation of Joint Commission International Accreditation Standards for Hospital- JCI to the Health Care Excellence Model

The Ministry of Health and Medical Education in Iran designed a comprehensive system as health care excellence model with participation of National Institute of Productivity & Organizational Excellence since January 2011 and introduced it in June 2012. The purpose of this paper is adapting of Joint Commission International Accreditation System in hospital by organizational excellence model in health sector to ensure coverage of accreditation requirement in organizational excellent criteria. This adaptation has three main steps: first, the basis of JCI and Excellence Model of health sector evaluates; in the second step, the requirements of JCI system in each of the thirteen sections specifies and these requirements adapt with criteria, sub-criteria, guidelines and supplement points of Excellence Model of health sector; in the final step, the results of adaptation is revised through Expert Meetings method. Findings state that all requirements of JCI accreditation system are covered by Excellence Model of health sector. It indicates that the results of this paper are accommodated with other studied researches in Iran and other countries in regard with the comparison of the excellence and evaluation models and the results of all researches represent the comprehensiveness of Organizational Excellence Model in comparison with other evaluation and accreditation models. In viewpoint of managers, practitioners and specialists of various sectors of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education and Iran hospitals, amount of this coverage is evaluated 73%.