The JCI certificate issued to TheLINE Plastic Surgery (left) and the JCI surveyors with TheLINE Plastic Surgery's medical staff during the accreditation review (right)
TheLINE Plastic Surgery has successfully completed the review for JCI accreditation, an internationally authoritative healthcare evaluation standard, and has been issued its certificate. On the 19th the clinic said it "received the certificate from JCI, the international healthcare accreditation commission recognized by the WHO (World Health Organization)," adding, "It is the result of having our value and qualifications assessed from multiple angles, from a safe medical environment and care system built solely around the patient, through to medical education and clinical research." JCI is an affiliate of The Joint Commission, the US healthcare accreditation body, and is an international healthcare evaluation organization established in the US in 1994 to evaluate and accredit hospitals within the United States. It objectively measures and documents the level of medical services and drives continuous improvement so that patients can receive the best possible care in a safe environment, issuing certificates to healthcare institutions worldwide only after a demanding review. TheLINE Plastic Surgery underwent its on-site survey in 2015 against the more stringent 5th edition of the JCI standards. The 5th revised edition of the JCI accreditation standards consists of 304 rigorous standards and 1,222 measurable elements. It added sections on medical staff education and human subjects research, and tightened the requirements for patient safety and quality improvement. The clinic said, "It is deeply meaningful to have completed the 'JCI' accreditation review under the more demanding 5th edition of the standards and to receive the certificate from what is the most internationally credible healthcare evaluation body," adding, "Because the accreditation stays valid only if renewed every three years, we plan to keep developing our patient-centered medical environment and care system so that we can continue to pass the review." Meanwhile, according to press reports, during the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital and Ewha Medical Center followed the infection control manuals they had rehearsed while preparing for JCI accreditation and were able to respond to MERS effectively, successfully preventing its spread within their hospitals.
