DOH - Healthcare Facilities / Hospitals (QMS), STD-ASHF-HV1

STD-ASHF-HV1 is the healthcare-facility standard issued by the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi, the regulator governing hospital quality, accreditation and licensing across the emirate. It holds a hospital to two axes. Patient safety covers access, assessment and continuity of care, patient and family rights, medication management, surgical and anaesthesia services, and infection prevention and control. Organisational management covers governance, workforce credentialing and competency, clinical documentation and health-information governance, facility and environmental safety with emergency preparedness, and quality improvement and risk management aligned to DOH regulatory reporting expectations.

The documentation turns those requirements into a system a quality department can run: a quality manual setting governance and scope, a management system scheme fixing the documentation architecture, a scheme of delegation defining committee structure and decision rights, and procedures reaching from document control, internal audit and CAPA through to admission and assessment, informed consent, discharge and transfer. Self-assessment tools follow the DOH survey chapters — organisational management, patient-centred care, safety, clinical support services and clinical services — and an implementation guide carries a DOH cross-reference matrix, so each requirement traces to the document answering it.