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International Accreditation of Healthcare Facilities
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International Accreditation of Healthcare Facilities
Where the standard was built, tested, and first granted
The Georgian Accreditation Initiative is a joint initiative of Accréditation Sans Frontières, founded in Paris, and the Public Health Institute of Georgia, founded in Tbilisi. It was the first independent, voluntary accreditation system for healthcare facilities in Georgia — established by Professor Giorgi Pkhakadze, MD, MPH, Head of the Department of Public Health at David Tvildiani Medical University — and it operated on three principles: transparency, accessibility, safety.
Its standards were developed in consultation with leading international and Georgian experts spanning providers, insurers and employers, with three areas of focus: continuing medical education, patient satisfaction, and sound business practice. The programme was designed to complement national regulation and international clinical accreditation, covering the whole organization — patient satisfaction, business processes, and patient-centred clinical processes — with an advisory council drawn from leading hospitals, international organizations and national experts.
The pilot ran against the ASF Basic Standard, version GEO2022.2 — a minimum standard in five chapters (continuing education, equipment, infection control, transparency and accountability, accessibility and safety). The process was voluntary, transparent and free: an application by email, a contract with ASF, an online meeting with management and then with all staff, a self-assessment questionnaire completed with ASF’s help, an on-site or virtual visit within ten working days, draft and final reports each open to the organization for ten working days, and a two-year accreditation for any facility passing the 80-point threshold. Results were published; supporting documents stayed confidential and were destroyed three years after completion.
Between 25 March 2021 and October 2022, 35 healthcare organizations applied to enter the Georgian Accreditation Initiative — dental clinics, ambulatory and diagnostic clinics, aesthetic-medicine centres and hospitals, across Tbilisi, Batumi, Rustavi, Kutaisi, Gardabani, Tsageri, Borjomi, Gurjaani and Chokhatauri. 13 of them signed a contract and formally entered the accreditation process; four completed it. The lists are published as they were recorded at the time, because they document the first national accreditation initiative in Georgia. An application or a contract is not an accreditation status.
| Date | Organization | Type | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25/03/2021 | ულტრამედი | Ambulatory clinic | Tbilisi |
| 26/03/2021 | თქვენი | Ambulatory clinic | Tbilisi |
| 26/03/2021 | ტომატოლოგიური | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 26/03/2021 | დენტალ ლაინი | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 26/03/2021 | მედიქლაბჯორჯია | Hospital | Tbilisi |
| 27/03/2021 | ჰელიოდენსი | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 29/03/2021 | N მედი ქლაბი | Ambulatory clinic | Tbilisi |
| 29/03/2021 | დენტალ მედი | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 30/03/2021 | დენტ თაუნი | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 1/04/2021 | მ.ტატიშვილი | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 2/04/2021 | ულტრაბგერა | Diagnostic clinic | Tbilisi |
| 4/04/2021 | მაილ გალერი | Dental clinic | Batumi |
| 05/04/2021 | დენსი | Dental clinic | Rustavi |
| 05/04/2021 | დენსი-გარდაბანი | Dental clinic | Gardabani |
| 05/04/2021 | დენსი – ყიფშიძე 2014 | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 05/04/2021 | დენსი – ბუდაპეშტი 2019 | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 05/04/2021 | დენსი – | Dental clinic | Rustavi |
| 05/04/2021 | დენტალ-ლიდერი | Dental clinic | Kutaisi |
| 06/04/2021 | რიმა დენტი | Dental clinic | Rustavi |
| 08/04/2021 | ანადენტი | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 09/04/2021 | ზუმადენტი | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 09/04/2021 | ალფა დენტი | Dental clinic | Tsageri |
| 10/04/2021 | იმუნო | Laboratory / ambulatory clinic | Tbilisi |
| 10/04/2021 | კოსმედიკი | Aesthetic medicine centre | Tbilisi |
| 12/04/2021 | იმპლანტ სტუდიო | Dental clinic | Borjomi |
| 12/04/2021 | MEDA Dental | Dental clinic | Gurjaani |
| 7/04/2021 | ვენუს ჯორჯია | Ambulatory clinic | Tbilisi |
| 21/04/2021 | ამედიცინო ცენტრი მედეა | Ambulatory clinic | Tbilisi |
| 23/04/2021 | კლინიკა ინიციო | Ambulatory clinic | Tbilisi |
| 25/04/2021 | ლაზერ თაიმი | Aesthetic medicine centre | Batumi |
| 26/04/2021 | კონსილიუმ მედულა | Hospital | Tbilisi |
| 20/05/2021 | ტოტალ შარმი | Aesthetic medicine centre | Tbilisi |
| 23/05/2021 | მეფა დენტი | Dental clinic | Chokhatauri |
| 14/10/2022 | ლჯ და კომპანია-დასავლეთ საქართველოს ტუბერკულიოზისა და ინფექციურ პათოლოგიათა ცენტრი | TB & infectious disease centre | Kutaisi |
| 27/10/2022 | ქუთაისის ახალი N2 | Maternity hospital | Kutaisi |
| Date | Organization | Type | City |
|---|---|---|---|
| 31/03/2021 | მედიქლაბჯორჯია | Hospital | Tbilisi |
| 31/03/2021 | ტომატოლოგიური | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 31/03/2021 | თქვენი | Ambulatory clinic | Tbilisi |
| 8/04/2021 | ულტრამედი | Ambulatory clinic | Tbilisi |
| 9/04/2021 | N მედი ქლაბი | Ambulatory clinic | Tbilisi |
| 10/04/2021 | მ.ტატიშვილი | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 13/04/2021 | დენტალ ლაინი | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 13/04/2021 | იმუნო | Laboratory / ambulatory clinic | Tbilisi |
| 14/04/2021 | კ ოსმედიკი | Aesthetic medicine centre | Tbilisi |
| 4/04/2021 | მაილ გალერი | Dental clinic | Batumi |
| 30/04/2021 | კონსილიუმ მედულა | Hospital | Tbilisi |
| 6/04/2021 | დენტალ მედი | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
| 23/05/2021 | დენსი – ბუდაპეშტი 2019 | Dental clinic | Tbilisi |
ASF’s Continuing Medical Education Committee, established in 2020, accredited courses, trainings, workshops and conferences — online and in person — and issued CME credits for them, helping organizers design activities to an accreditable standard. Twenty activities were accredited between 2021 and 2026 and 306 individual certificates issued at three events in 2021–2022. Every one of them remains on record and verifiable here.
ASF has nothing to hide about this partnership — the opposite. From January 2023 the Public Health Institute of Georgia became the official representative of Accreditation Canada in Georgia, and ASF paused its own accreditation programme so that every resource could go into it. The same month, Order №4/ნ made independent international accreditation a condition of recognition under the Universal Healthcare State Program from 1 January 2025.
Twenty-three healthcare institutions started the international accreditation process with us, supported by PHIG/ASF’s local advisory team — a dedicated coordinator per facility, consultations in Georgian, 24/7 contact — and nine achieved Accreditation Canada accreditation with that technical support. This was our learning curve as well as theirs: the advisory model built for it is now ASF Local Advisory Services, and the lessons from why fourteen did not complete inform the Version 3 standards and the four-category classification. In 2025 PHIG began a new strategy cycle and reinstated ASF’s own initiative.
Listed as recorded on publichealth.ge. Accreditation Canada decisions are published by Accreditation Canada, not by ASF; this list documents participation in the process, not status.
Since 2024 the ASF/PHIG alliance and Georgia Active have worked to raise fitness standards in Georgia: national certification and accreditation of fitness facilities, programmes and instructors, benchmarked to EuropeActive accreditation and the European Register of Exercise Professionals (EREPS); promotion of EREPS registration for Georgian trainers with a structured pathway; partnerships with national fitness academies; and the SheniFitness platform (shenipulsi.ge) with advice from EREPS-certified trainers. The stated goal is a national independent accreditation body for fitness clubs, established jointly by PHIG, ASF and Georgia Active — aligned with the WHO Global Action Plan on Physical Activity 2018–2030. That work is now the ASF Fitness & Wellness Standards.
Start with the open self-assessment. Registration for the restarted programme opens to Georgian facilities first.
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