COHSASA

The Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa (COHSASA), a not-for-profit organisation based in Cape Town in South Africa, assists a range of healthcare facilities to meet and maintain quality standards and thereby provide safe, quality services. In the past 29 years of operation, COHSASA has worked in over 600 facilities in both the public and private sectors in South Africa, Botswana, eSwatini, Lesotho, Namibia, Rwanda, Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana, Egypt and Kenya. COHSASA runs programmes in a range of facilities including hospitals (and day hospitals), clinics, hospices, and rehabilitation/sub-acute establishments. There is a strong focus on building capacity. The COHSASA programme helps healthcare professionals to measure themselves against standards. This approach teaches healthcare workers how to monitor improvements using quality improvement methods, internationally accredited standards and a web-based information system. COHSASA has achieved global recognition and is the only African health facility accrediting body that is accredited by the International Society for Quality in Health Care External Evaluation Association (ISQuaEEA). Since it achieved its first accreditation award from ISQua in 2002, the Council has maintained its accredited status with six further accreditations. Its current ISQua accreditation status is valid until 2027. Two sets of its standards – are currently accredited by ISQuaEEA and COHSASA’s Surveyor Training Programme is accredited by ISQua until 2027. COHSASA offers its services to meet individual client needs so that healthcare facilities are equipped for the long-term to meet the safety and quality health needs of the population they serve in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible.

Website

http://www.cohsasa.co.za

External link for COHSASA

Industry

Hospitals and Health Care

Company size

11-50 employees

Headquarters

Cape Town, Western Cape

Type

Nonprofit

Founded

1995

Specialties

Quality improvement in healthcare, quality assurance using standards, patient safety reporting and monitoring, accreditation of healthcare facilities, and patient safety