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Goal: To make DOH and LGUs active partners in providing quality health
services
Key Strategies:
Objectives: Better and more effective collaboration between DOH and LGUs
DOH: as provider of technical and financial assistance packages for health care
LGU: prime developers of health systems and direct implementers of health programs
Pillars:
• quality assurance
• grants and technical assistance
• awards
• health promotion
Valuable Lessons
• realization to the need for total systems quality standards that combine simple yet basic
input. process and output standards
• importance of careful selection of incentives
• the need for changin procedures to provide adequate time for crucial processes to take
place and be internalized prior to the assessment
The Sentrong Sigla Certification
- Phase II
Background/Framework
Goals
Long Term: Institutionalize within the health sector the leadership, processes, knowledge,
attitudes, skills and organizations to generate continuous quality improvement in health care
Intermediate (2003-07): to improve quality of health care in outpatient health faciities, hospitals
and public health services in the communities
Specific: to improve the quality of outpatient health care (public and private and of public health
service in communities)
Objectives
2) To progressively raise the average quality of public health services through recognition of
successful attainment of quality standards
• at least 50% of health centers successfully meet the revised SS-Phase II basic Certification
Standards (Level I)
• at least 20% of Level I certified health centers successfully meet SS-Phase II
Specialty Award (Level 2) standards for all core public health programs
3) To raise public health awareness of public support and demand for, and client participation in
SS Certification of their health services and facilities
Recognition Scheme
Validity of Certification
1. facilities which did not progress to a higher level of certification but maintained current
certification are:
- given stickers to confirm the renewal of the validity of seal
- no ther incentives given for mere renewal of SS status
2. facilities that slide back: seal will not be removed but not issued a SS sticker
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