NIAHO® accreditation for acute care hospitals
DNV’s NIAHO® hospital accreditation validates your hospital’s commitment to safety, quality, and compliance, enhancing performance, reducing risk, and strengthening trust.
NIAHO® accreditation for acute care hospitals
Challenges in hospital accreditation
Hospitals operate in a competitive and complex environment marked by increasing regulation, evolving patient expectations, and growing pressure to improve outcomes.
Accreditation is not just a compliance exercise, but a strategic tool to build credibility with patients and payers, enhance operational efficiency, reduce risk, and demonstrate continuous improvement. In this landscape, having a collaborative accreditor is crucial.
How our hospital accreditation services support you
DNV’s NIAHO® hospital accreditation program evaluates acute care hospitals against a comprehensive set of standards, fully aligned with the CMS Conditions of Participation and rooted in ISO 9001 quality management principles.
Our approach is designed to assess the entire organization, covering leadership, clinical protocols, patient safety, environment of care, and systems for continuous improvement. By integrating ISO 9001 into accreditation, DNV helps hospitals go beyond compliance to achieve and demonstrate sustainable excellence across all departments and service lines.
Surveys are conducted annually to help hospitals remain survey-ready and operating at peak performance year-round. This minimizes administrative burden and ensures ongoing alignment with regulations and internal quality goals. The collaborative nature of our surveys promotes shared learning and real-time improvements.
Driving excellence in hospital accreditation
See how DNV helps hospitals enhance patient safety, strengthen compliance, and build lasting trust.
Trusted experts in healthcare
- Nationally trusted methodology to help hospitals enhance performance, reduce risk, and strengthen compliance.
- Uniquely forward-looking model focused on sustainable improvement.
Collaborative team of surveyors highly qualified with healthcare backgrounds.
Benefits of our hospital accreditation services
- Exceeds CMS Conditions of Participation and accreditation expectations.
- Proactively reduces risk and strengthens patient safety systems.
- Enhances patient trust and outcomes.
- Provides actionable insights to drive ongoing operational performance.
- Drives continuous process and performance improvement.
- Demonstrates excellence to patients, staff, stakeholders, and communities.
Resources to support your NIAHO® acute care hospital accreditation
Explore essential guides, templates, and standards to help your hospital sustain compliance and continuous improvement under DNV’s NIAHO® accreditation framework.
Download our NIAHO Accreditation Program Process Document
Access a detailed overview of the NIAHO® accreditation process, outlining requirements, timelines, and evaluation methods for acute care hospitals.
Download our NIAHO® Accreditation Standards for acute care hospitals
Comprehensive standards aligned with CMS Conditions of Participation and ISO 9001 for quality and compliance.
Download our NIAHO® standards for critical access hospitals
Guidelines tailored for smaller or rural hospitals to ensure compliance and sustainable operations.
Download our NIAHO® Psychiatric Accreditation Requirements
Complementary standards supporting integrated behavioral health and patient safety.
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