{"id":31301,"date":"2026-04-10T11:55:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31301"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:55:50","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:55:50","slug":"council-for-health-service-accreditation-of-southern-africa-recognises-malawi-hospital","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/council-for-health-service-accreditation-of-southern-africa-recognises-malawi-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa recognises Malawi hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Malawi&#8217;s Blantrye Adventist Hospital has been accredited with a 98% from the Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa, making it the next go to hospital in the region.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The accreditation means that the hospital complies with internationally recognised standards aligned with the principles of the International Society for Quality in Health Care.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hospital is the first in the country to receive such a recognition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Blantrye Adventist Hospital is a private hospital in Malawi owned by the Adventist church.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The hospital currently has about 45 beds and sees about thirty thousand patients a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They offer a range of services and their patients are from the rural and urban areas of Malei.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Late last year the hospital\u00a0 became the first hospital in Malawi to achieve Council for Health Service Accreditation of Southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Chief Operations Officer and Quality Manager of the hospital Patrick Gausi says the journey of achieving this milestone started way back in 2021<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We have scored 84%. So apart from the 84%, we were meant to have all the departments that I had actually earlier on mentioned. We actually had to score a percentage of 80% above. So we still had certain departments which had scored less than 80%. And this is where we had to fix and to pull out those departments, despite having an average score of 84%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24167,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-31301","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Malawi's Blantrye Adventist Hospital has been accredited","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31302,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31301\/revisions\/31302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}