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National Committee for Evaluation, Diagnosis and Certification of Safe Hospitals in Mexico

Mexico established a Safe Hospitals National Committee and a Technical Advisory Group chaired by the Civil Protection Agency All 31 States in Mexico have created a Safe Hospitals Committee. National Committee for Evaluation, Diagnosis and Certification of Safe Hospitals in Mexico.

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National Committee for Evaluation, Diagnosis and Certification of Safe Hospitals in Mexico

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  1. Mexico established a Safe Hospitals National Committee and a Technical Advisory Group chaired by the Civil Protection Agency All 31 States in Mexico have created a Safe Hospitals Committee

  2. National Committee for Evaluation, Diagnosis and Certification of Safe Hospitals in Mexico • Secretary of Governance • National Civil Protection System • Secretary of Health • Mexican Social Security Institute • National Defense Secretary • National Petroleum Company • State Workers Social Security Institute • General Council of Health • Navy Health Services • Mexican Association of Hospitals • Mexican Society of Earthquake Engineering • Pan American Association of Medical Emergencies and Disasters

  3. Evaluators Teams The Technical Advisory Group created two courses Introduction to Safe Hospitals (1469 participants) Online Tutorial Course for Safe Hospital Evaluators (402 certified evaluators) www.imss.gob.mx/curso/hospitalseguro

  4. Safe Health facilities in AREQUIPA – PERU

  5. Policy on Safe Health facilities Basic Aspects to establish the Safe Hospitals Policy • Creation of the Safe Health Facilities Committee • 2. Safety Situation Assessment • 3. Elaboration of the Safe Hospitals Policy

  6. Disaster Risk Assessment

  7. Strengthening Communities Through Safer Health Facilities In the Caribbean Summary of results of Application of checklist

  8. Status of application of checklist • A subregional team of multidisciplinary professionals were trained to apply the Hospital Safety Checklist to the participating hospitals. • To date, 15 countries have hospital safety evaluators. • From the 28 hospitals assessed in 13 caribbean countries, 5 are category C, 23 category B and none in category A.

  9. Safety Improvement Plan • Some countries started to address some of the weak areas prior to the arrival of the evaluation team. • Many hospitals made decisions about areas to be addressed immediately based on the report of the findings and the recommendations. • To date most countries have prepared their Safety Improvement Plans and have began implementing the plans • All countries are working on updating their hospital disaster plans

  10. ECUADOR SAFE HOSPITALS PROGRAM2007 - 2015

  11. National Policy on Safe Hospitals Institutionalization Safe Hospitals Program

  12. Hospital Safety Index in Ecuador’s main hospitals

  13. Advances in 2009 Safe Hospitals Program in Ecuador 83 Hospital Emergency Response Plans updated. New Hospital Signals Regulation approved At least 17% of the hospitals have implemented the new signals regulation. Distribution of fire extinguishers to 13 hospitals. Hospital Building Code being revised.

  14. www.paho.org/disasters www.SafeHospitals.info

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