Certification Standards for Primary Stroke Centres

The standards provide framework to improve stroke prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and support of patients coming to the Stroke Centres while simutaneously stimulating continuous quality improvement. The Standards for certification of Stroke Centre aims to improve access to quality stroke care and quality monitoring which will lead to improved stroke outcomes.
An MOU was signed in November 2022 by the National Accreditation Board of Hospitals (NABH) and World Stroke Organization (WSO) to initiate a stroke center certification program in India. In order to bring this program into compliance with NABH’s continuous hospital certification procedures, WSO standards and components have been combined with NABH format.

Outline of NABH Stroke Centre Certification Standards

  1. Access, Assessment and Continuity of Care (AAC)
  2. Care of Patients (COP)
  3. Management of Medication (MOM)
  4. Patient Rights and Education (PRE)
  5. Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
  1. Patient Safety and Quality Improvement (PSQ)
  2. Responsibilities of Management (ROM)
  3. Facility Management and Safety (FMS)
  4. Human Resource Management (HRM)
  5. Information Management System (IMS)
  1. Ensures quality care with emphasis on patient safety leading to good clinical outcomes.
  2. Ensures standardization of protocols in the Stroke Centre .
  3. The patients are treated by trained & credentialed medical staff.
  4. Rights of patients are respected and protected
  5. It raises community confidence in the hospital’s Stroke care
  6. It improves overall professional development of Clinicians and Para Medical Staffs associated with the Stroke Centre

All NABH fully accreditted centres or hospitals having specialised stroke care facility which is functional for atleast 6 months and NABH standards are implemented for atleast 3 months. For information regarding criteria for Primary and Advanced Stroke Care, kindly refer to the general information brochure.

All aspiring stroke centres desirous to achieve certification can apply online by registering on the NABH website
https://portal.nabh.co/StrokeUserLoginCreation.aspx

Fees towards certification depends on the levels at which the centre is willing to apply– For Basic Stroke Centre fee structure is as below. To view the complete fee structure please visit important links on NABH website followed by fee structure under quick links.


Type of Stroke Care CentreAssessment Criteria
(On-site assessment)		Certification fees
Primary stroke care
Center		One-man day (1×1)Rs. 11,000/- plus GST @ 18%

NABH conducts various training and awareness programmes round the year regularly. It is advisable that the aspirants of healthcare organizations attend Training for better understanding of the standards.

The standards are available online on NABH website under NABH Standards section. The standards are accessible to all and can be downloaded for free.

To obtain a copy of NABH standards, kindly click on the below shown cover page

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