Healthcare

Biography

Ms. Omaima Nassar is HCAC’s Standards Development head unit since 2011.  She is a Certified Hospital Surveyor, Certified Primary Health Care Surveyor, Certified Breast Imaging Surveyor, and Certified Center of Excellence Assessor at HCAC. She chairs the research and development committee at HCAC. Additionally, Omaima has special expertise in the developing and maintaining HCAC standards that improving the quality and safety and driving change in patient care.

Prior to Joining the HCAC Ms. Omaima was the head of quality and safety officer of College of American Pathologists CAP accreditation/quality office of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Department at King Hussein Cancer Center. Prior to her work with the King Hussein Cancer Center, Ms. Omaima worked with Triumpharma Clinical Research Center as a quality officer to supervise the bioequivalence studies and ensure full compliance with sponsor’s clinical protocols

Ms. Omaima holds a Master’s in quality control and management from Jordan University of Science and Technology, and a Bachelor in Pharmacy from Jordan University of Science and Technology, Ms. Omaima is a certified CAP inspector within the Middle East region, she participated in inspections at Lebanon, Cairo, UAE, and Saudi Arabia.

 

Abstract

Health promotion and disease prevention are key objectives of primary health care. Educational interventions are essential in the treatment of disease and in the maintenance of health. In order to achieve these objectives, it is imperative that the primary health care centers assess the educational needs of the community that they serve. The primary health care accreditation standards has been developed by the Health Care Accrediation Council The Health Care Accreditation Council (“HCAC”), Jordan’s leading independent not-for-profit quality improvement organization, was established in 2007 with the goal of fostering the continuous improvement in the quality and safety standards of healthcare throughout Jordan. HCAC is a member of the International Society for Quality in Health Care “ISQua” Federation, a global organization aimed at inspiring, promoting and supporting continuous improvement in the safety and quality of health care worldwide. HCAC is the only institution in the Arab world and the region that has its organization, standards and surveyor training accredited by ISQua.

 

The HCAC primary health care standards are dividied into clusters , one of these clsuters is titled Health education, this cluster contains standards  that focus on the importance of developing health care educational plan for each primary health center that is devloped in line with  the community needs and then the standards require the implemenation of the  plans; education curriculms are to be “evidence base” and provided by qualified health educators who use educational methods that are consistent with the patients and families values, preferences, and their readiness to learn. by evaluating  the eduational efforts, we concluded that patient’s education has led to patient empowerment and that educated patients are more capable to make decisions regariding their health; for example  the educatienal interventions decreased the unintended pregnancy,maternal and child mortality.