Hospitals in Lebanon (QMS) - MoPH

Hospitals in the Republic of Lebanon are surveyed and licensed against the national accreditation programme run by the Ministry of Public Health, and this system is built on the January 2019 edition of those standards. It follows the domains the Lebanese model emphasises: organisational governance and leadership, patient and family rights, assessment and continuity of care, safe medication management, infection prevention and control, surgical and anaesthesia services, environmental and facility safety, human resources and staff competency, quality improvement and patient safety, information and medical-records management, and emergency and disaster preparedness.

Each domain is answered by working documents rather than a restatement of the standard: a quality manual and accreditation scheme defining the system, an integrated quality and patient safety policy carrying the commitment, and a procedure behind each chapter, from governance and human capital through to risk, internal audit, management review and event management with CAPA. The evidence layer is built out in the same detail — sentinel event reports with root-cause analysis, patient identification and time-out records, hand-hygiene compliance audits, risk registers, supplier evaluation. A mock accreditation survey checklist and a COR readiness checklist then let a quality team test itself first, alongside guidance on interpreting and evidencing the standards.