HAE is the implementing partner of Accreditation Canada in Europe and North Africa and an assessment partner of Health Standards Organization.
HAE delivers a wide range of high-impact assessment programs for health and social service organizations, powered by HSO, customized to local needs, and built on AC’s more than 60 years of working globally with health, social and community service organizations to advance quality and safety.
International Approach to Quality Care
HAE engages surveyors, health care specialists and support staff from across the regions to ensure effective delivery and management across its programs and services.
By building talent in or close to the countries we serve, HAE minimizes costs and maximizes return on investment.
In addition, HAE optimizes service delivery through real-time response to client needs and program support in five languages (English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese).
More than 100 Health and Social Service Standards.
Over 500 trained surveyors working around Europe.
Global partners and affiliates across 5 continents.
What is Accreditation?
Accreditation is an ongoing process of assessing health care and social services organizations against standards of excellence to identify what is being done well and what needs to be improved.
Organizations that take part in our accreditation program choose to do so because they have first-hand knowledge of the contribution accreditation makes in improving quality, reducing risk, and strengthening accountability.
Accredited organizations devote time and resources to identify what they are doing well and what could be done better—and then take action to address issues so they can provide the best possible care and service to their patients and clients in order to save and improve lives.
AC accredits hospitals, virtual hospitals, senior’s and residential homes, rehabilitation centres, home care agencies, medical labs, health education programs, various ambulatory services and almost everything else in between.
Assessment Programs
Health Standards Organization has developed a suite of assessment programs that allow you to measure quality, including specialty programs that help organizations improve quality in specific areas, such as trauma and stroke networks, and programs specific to care settings, such as long term care.
Assessment and Regulatory Bodies, Government, Associations or Institutes may license one of our existing assessment programs or sponsor the development of a customized program.
HSO’s existing assessment programs include Accreditation, Distinction and Recognition. While these programs are based on the same principle of evaluation and improving performance against a defined set of standards, they each have different scopes.
