Accreditation
IHBT regularly undergoes accreditation processes with Czech and foreign auditors. This process helps create an environment of maximum quality and safety and thereby achieve maximum results in the care provided.
Quality Certificate Joint Commission International (JCI)
Joint Commission International (JCI) is an independent international organization with fifty years of experience in accrediting healthcare facilities. It evaluates the quality management and safety system of healthcare services according to international standards. These standards establish procedures in the area of patient care. In particular, it is about the availability of care and its continuity, examination and treatment of patients, respect for their rights, but also about lifelong education of healthcare workers. The standards also provide rules for hospital operations and quality management, patient and employee safety, information protection, staff qualifications, and prevention of hospital-acquired infections. The international JCI quality certificate is awarded for 3 years, and before the end of the three-year accreditation period, the healthcare facility must be re-examined.
IHBT received the award from the prestigious accreditation agency in 2007 (as the third Czech facility) and according to accreditation rules defends it at three-year intervals. Most recently, it defended the JCI accreditation in 2025 (Certificate of Accreditation Award). IHBT is the sole holder of this certification in the Czech Republic.
Quality Certificate of the Joint Accreditation Commission (SAK)
The Joint Accreditation Commission (SAK) performs accreditation of healthcare facilities through external quality assessment in healthcare, which is directly or indirectly related to patient care. The objective of SAK accreditation is the continuous improvement of quality and safety of healthcare. Quality assessment is carried out by evaluating the compliance of processes taking place in the healthcare facility with accreditation standards. Accreditation audits are conducted by SAK auditors, who are physicians, non-physician healthcare workers, and administrators in healthcare, and they take place according to the so-called Tracker methodology – which assesses whether the care of auditors' selected patients is conducted in accordance with the facility's internal regulations, or in accordance with SAK accreditation standards. SAK accreditation is awarded for a period of three years. The last accreditation audit was successfully conducted at IHBT in 2023 (Certificate of Accreditation Award).
JACIE Certification
The Joint Accreditation Committee of ISCT-Europe & EBMT (JACIE) is the only official accrediting body in Europe in the field of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and cell therapy. It supports high quality patient care and medical and laboratory practice through professional voluntary certification.
IHBT voluntarily committed to JACIE professional standards and as a center of excellence with its own research activities closely linked to the provided healthcare received for the second time in 2025 the status of a certified transplant center (for the period 15.4.2025 to 14.4.2029). This fact facilitates participation in international clinical trials, which bring medical research findings closer to clinical practice (Certificate of Accreditation Award).
European federation for immunogenetics (EFI)
European federation for immunogenetics (EFI) is an international professional society that aims to support the development of immunogenetics in medicine and research. It facilitates not only the exchange of information, but also contributes to the dissemination of skills and knowledge among professionals in this field (immunogenetics, histocompatibility testing, transplant medicine). On the basis of expert discussion, it issues and regularly updates recommendations for standardization of methods, quality control, and professional criteria for accreditation, whose implementation it evaluates in the course of accreditation audits.
Czech Institute for Accreditation, public benefit corporation (ČIA o.p.s.)
The Czech Institute for Accreditation, public benefit corporation (ČIA o.p.s.), is the National Accreditation Body established by the Czech government, which provides its services in accordance with applicable legal regulations in all areas of accreditation to both public and private entities. The principle of a unified European accreditation system formed by national accreditation bodies, which operate according to uniform rules and accredit according to defined internationally recognized standards, stems from the approach specified by the EU in the Global Approach on Assessment and Certification.
In accordance with the requirements of international standards and ČIA documents, impartial, objective, and independent assessments of competence are conducted for:
- Testing and calibration laboratories (ČSN EN ISO/IEC 17025)
- Healthcare laboratories (ČSN EN ISO 15189)
Laboratory Accreditation
Complement Laboratory IHBT
Continuously defends an independent and impartial assessment of professional competence of the Complement Laboratory according to the ČSN EN ISO 15189 standard, whose application is verified by the Czech Institute for Accreditation. Examination methods within the scope of accreditation are defined in the appendix to the Accreditation Certificate.
NRL for DNA Diagnostics
Accredited by the Czech Institute for Accreditation (ČIA o.p.s.) according to the ČSN EN ISO/IEC 17025 Conformity Assessment – General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories (since 2002).
Transplant Medicine Laboratory
Accredited since 2007 according to professional standards Standards for Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Testing of the international organization European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI)