Accréditation Sans Frontières

International Accreditation of Healthcare Facilities

For Small Hospitals

From invisible
to verified.

Major international accreditors typically require US$40,000+ just to apply, and were built for large, resource-rich hospitals. Every major accreditor in the world has a minimum scale that excludes most of the world’s hospitals. ASF was built for exactly the hospitals they cannot serve.

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The invisibility problem

A 100-bed hospital treats thousands of patients a year.
No accreditor was built for it.

The world’s small hospitals — district hospitals, regional clinics, specialist day centres with fewer than 200 beds — are where the majority of the world’s 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 100-bed hospital cannot hire a full-time quality coordinator. It cannot absorb a US$40,000 survey fee. It cannot staff the paperwork a standard accreditation cycle demands. So it remains unverified — not because its care is poor, but because no system was ever built to verify it.

ASF was built to change that. We designed the entire programme for hospitals up to 200 beds — the fee structure, the document toolkit, the indicator set, the survey format, the patient council model. Nothing about ASF requires a quality department you don’t have.

The comparison

What the major accreditors require — and what ASF requires.

Major accreditors
ASF
Entry cost
US$40,000–80,000 per cycle
From €999/month
Staff time required
Dedicated quality team + compliance officers
~3 hours/month of existing staff time
Data requirements
Extensive new documentation system
Data you already collect
Survey cycle
Snapshot survey every 3 years
Continuous monitoring + annual survey
Quality coordinator
Hire required (60,000+ EUR/year)
Included — ASF is your quality department
Designed for
500+ bed hospitals in high-income countries
Hospitals up to 200 beds, anywhere

What ASF gives small hospitals

A quality department you do not have to hire.

Quality coordination

ASF becomes your quality department. A dedicated coordinator, remotely embedded. Monthly indicator review. Incident management. No new hire, no desk, no overhead.

💬

Patient Voice

An independent patient council convened by ASF. A neutral ombudsman. A QR-code feedback channel that goes directly to ASF — not the hospital. Patients speak honestly. The hospital hears the truth.

🎓

Training

Essential trainings for clinical and non-clinical staff. A Training Passport per person — portable, verifiable. ASF Academy access at member discount. Scientific writing support for clinical staff.

📄

Annual report

In four formats: PDF, one-minute film, podcast episode, and peer-reviewed article. Your facility’s year in a document that patients, payers and partners can actually read.

🌐

Digital presence

A hospital profile. Doctors promoted by name. Stories syndicated across ASF’s media network. International patient care listing backed by live indicators, not a brochure.

🏅

The certificate

Valid only while monitoring continues. Listed on the public register. Verifiable at france-asf.fr/verify. Suspended if quality falls — which is what makes it worth having.

The numbers

What €490/month buys — and what it replaces.

€490
ASF membership / month
Quality coordinator + patient council + ombudsman + training + annual report. Accreditation included.
€5,000+
Average quality specialist salary / month
One person. One desk. No council, no ombudsman, no annual report. Accreditation not included.
US$40k+
Typical major accreditor survey fee alone
Survey only. Annual loaded cost estimated US$80k+. Per diem charged. Designed for 500+ bed hospitals.

The consultant trap

“We don’t visit your quality department. We become it.”

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 — present every month, facilitating 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.

FAQ

Is ASF only for hospitals under 200 beds?

The standard membership is designed for hospitals up to 200 beds. Larger hospitals and ambulatory clinics are quoted individually — write to us for a tailored proposal.

Do we need a quality department before joining?

No. ASF becomes your quality department. You need approximately three hours of staff time per month to share existing data. No new hire, no new bureaucracy.

How is the survey fee structured?

€3,500 for ASF members, €6,000 for non-members. Travel at cost. Zero per diem. Published and fixed — no hidden costs.

Ready to start?

Your hospital is not too small.
It is exactly the right size.

Write to us. No obligation. We reply in writing within three working days.

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* All prices shown are net of tax. Local taxes (including VAT or equivalent) are applied additionally where required by the applicable jurisdiction. ASF is a registered non-profit association (loi 1901) headquartered in Paris, France. Tax treatment varies by country — your invoice will reflect the applicable tax rate for your jurisdiction. Contact us for a pre-invoice estimate including applicable taxes for your country.

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