For Small Hospitals
JCI requires US$,+ just to apply. Accreditation Canada was built for large, resource-rich hospitals. Every major accreditor in the world has a minimum scale that excludes most of the worldrsquos hospitals. ASF was built for exactly the hospitals they cannot serve.
The invisibility problem
The worldrsquos small hospitals mdash district hospitals, regional clinics, specialist day centres with fewer than beds mdash are where the majority of the worldrsquos patients receive care. They are also invisible to every major international accreditation body. Not because they are unimportant, but because the major accreditors were designed for a different scale: large urban referral hospitals with dedicated quality departments, compliance officers and the budget to sustain a three-year accreditation cycle.
A -bed hospital cannot hire a full-time quality coordinator. It cannot absorb a US$, survey fee. It cannot staff the paperwork a standard accreditation cycle demands. So it remains unverified mdash not because its care is poor, but because no system was ever built to verify it.
ASF was built to change that.
JCI: US$,ndash, per cycle bull Large dedicated quality team bull Extensive documentation system bull Snapshot survey every years bull Designed for + bed hospitals
euro/month bull ~ hour staff time per month bull Data you already collect bull No dedicated quality hire bull Continuous monitoring, not a snapshot bull Designed for up to beds
What ASF gives small hospitals
ASF becomes your quality department. A dedicated coordinator, remotely embedded. Monthly indicator review. Incident management. No new hire, no desk, no overhead.
An independent patient council convened by ASF. A neutral ombudsman. A QR-code feedback channel that goes directly to ASF mdash not the hospital. Patients speak honestly. The hospital hears the truth.
Essential trainings for clinical and non-clinical staff. A Training Passport per person mdash a portable, verifiable record. ASF Academy access at % discount. Scientific writing support for clinical staff.
In four formats: PDF, one-minute film, podcast episode, and peer-reviewed article. Your facilityrsquos year in a document that patients, payers and partners can actually read.
A hospital profile. Doctors promoted by name. Stories syndicated across ASFrsquos media network. International patient care listing backed by live indicators, not a brochure.
Valid only while monitoring continues. Listed on the public register. Verifiable at france-asf.fr/verify. Suspended if quality falls mdash which is what makes it worth having.
The consultant trap
Most quality consultants visit. They produce a report. They leave. The hospital files the report and continues as before. ASF is not a consultant. We are the quality function mdash present every month, faciliting every quarterly session, convening the patient council, managing the ombudsman channel, producing the monthly report and the annual one. We do not create documents only for us. We do not add bureaucracy. We read what you already produce and give it back to you in a form that drives improvement.
The numbers
services including quality coordinator, patient council, ombudsman, training, annual report
One person. One desk. No council, no ombudsman, no annual report. Accreditation not included.
Survey only. Annual loaded cost estimated US$k+. Per diem charged. Designed for + bed hospitals.
Common questions
The standard membership is designed for hospitals up to beds. Larger hospitals and ambulatory clinics are quoted individually mdash write to us for a tailored proposal.
No. ASF becomes your quality department. You need approximately one hour of staff time per month to share existing data. No new hire, no new bureaucracy.
euro, for ASF members, euro, for non-members. Travel at cost. Zero per diem. Published and fixed mdash no hidden costs.
Write to us. No obligation. We reply in writing within working days.
Paris — 32, Bd de Rochechouart, 75018
Geneva — 23 Rue des Eaux-Vives, 1207
Tbilisi — 3 Betlemi Rise, 0105
info@accreditation.ge
