Security and cosmetic surgery

The certification of the health care institutions is a step having for objective to contribute to the improvement of the assumption of responsibility of the patients in the hospitals and private clinics on the whole of the French territory.

It consists of an car-evaluation followed by an inspection carried out by health professionals external with and integrates an operative paragraph of follow-up which aim at engaging the professionals of the establishment in a step durable quality.

The certification of the establishments is not an examination or a contest which each establishment passes but rather a basic work mobilizing the whole of its personnel around a common objective: to better work together to ensure an assumption of responsibility of quality.

The satisfactory assumption of responsibility of the patient implies the coordinated share of many clinical departments, médico-techniques, logistics and administrative. This is why, the evaluation relates to the whole of the operation of the establishment and integrates the elements relating to information and the participation of the patient in his assumption of responsibility.

The procedure of certification is naturally in continual change in order to permanently adapt to the requirements of the citizens quality safety of treatment. The certification of the establishments being still little known General public, the places at your disposal on this site of concrete and simple information on this operative paragraph.

The certification of the health care institutions translated a perennial will of improvement of the quality and safety of treatment exempted to the patients. The whole of the sanitary institutions (public and private) to the obligation to fall under this step. Certification is distinguished from the inspection and stresses the participation of the professionals of the establishment. Indeed, it is asked to them to carry out an evaluation of their own establishment, a diagnosis quality, while being based on elements of reference provided by the . This “” is then transmitted to the team of experts designated by the to lead the evaluation on the spot. This multi-field team expert-visitors is of health (doctors, managers, looking after).

Within the High health official, the service of certification of the health care institutions has the role of organizing and of leading the procedures. It is made up mainly of health professionals (doctors, looking after, responsible quality…). To carry out the inspections of certification, the service calls upon qualified health professionals (expert-visitors) who are recruited and trained by the mission formation. Lastly, the service collaborates narrowly with a Committee, the Commission of certification of the health care institutions, charged with pronouncing the decisions of certification of each establishment. This Commission is for their experience in the field of the organization of the care.

Several statutory texts govern the operative paragraph of certification of the health care institutions. The text founder at the origin of the of the health care institutions is “the Juppe ordinance” of 1996. This ordinance creates the national agency of accreditation and evaluation in health , administrative public corporation attached to the ministry of health. It stipulates that all the health care institutions have five years (that is to say until 2001) to begin in a procedure of accreditation made compulsory and led by . The clearly definite objective is to improve quality and safety of treatment in the health care institutions. In 2002, the “law ” relating to the patient's rights stresses the information of the patient, in particular through the access to its medical-records. In 2004 the legislator creates High health official and the entirety of the missions of confers to him of which the certification of the health care institutions. This law also marks a change of term, the term “certification” is substituted at the end “accreditation”.

*: The name “accreditation of the health care institutions” does not exist any more since the law August 13rd, 2004, replaced by “the certification of the health care institutions”. The term “accreditation” from now on is reserved for another procedure concerning the doctors and the medical teams.

The inspection of certification was carried out from November 15th to 18th 2005 by a team of 2 experts visitors elected by the High health official. The returned his in March 2006 report. The private clinic Elysium satisfied the procedure of certification.
The private clinic Elysium is the only private clinic in France, entirely dedicated to the cosmetic surgery, to have satisfied the procedure of certification.