Healthcare Regulation and Accreditation Consultant

The FAMILY HEALTH INTERNATIONAL 360 in USA from Americas region had released this tender for Tenders are invited for Healthcare Regulation and Accreditation Consultant. Issue date: 8 Dec, 2022 Closing date: 31 May, 2023 Scope of Work:- The EpiC project is seeking consultants to support GAHAR’s activities for approximately 3 months, beginning late-January 2023. The primary objective of this consultancy is to develop and implement a comprehensive surveyor training program that is in line with International Society for Quality in Healthcare (ISQua) guidelines, standards, and accreditation. The consultants will: 1. Ensure a comprehensive program consistent with GAHAR standards & compatible with ISQua requirements for accreditation, guidelines, and standards for surveyors by completing the following deliverables: a. Review GAHAR’s seven standards handbooks and develop a document outlining evidence that supports alignment with ISQua requirements for accreditation b. Develop the training program tailored to GAHAR standards. i. the training program should include agenda, training materials (PowerPoint presentations, case studies, small group activities, mock interviews, and tracer activities) ii. the training program should be centered around the advanced tracer methodology and should be two folds: theoretical (didactic) and onsite (practical). It should cover all the following topics: planning and preparation for a survey; team meetings and surveyor information sharing; differentiation of surveyor roles; document review; conducting a survey; leadership skills; report writing; quality management; post-survey activities; surveyor in-training competency evaluations; tips/toolbox for reviewing patients safety, surgery, medication; development of scenarios to be used in training with specific strategies and linkages to standards among other relevant topics. c. Review hospitals for tracers, identify tracers to be conducted, and assign tracer activities 2. Develop four training manuals tailored to GAHAR standards on the following topics: a. Soft & leadership skills, b. General surveying activities, c. Advanced tracer methodology, and d. A training of trainers (TOT) guide. The manuals should be holistic, tackling all aspects of the topics i.e., definitions, development, know how, practical exercises, etc. 3. Conduct training for surveyors and tracers, a. develop objective criteria and appraisal methodology for the selection of TOT candidates, b. design training presentations with speaker notes for TOT, and c. create an evaluation of the TOT program Date of Issue of RFP: Thursday December 8, 2022 Date Questions from Applicants Due: Thursday December 15, 2022 Date Answers due from FHI 360: Monday December 19, 2022 Date Applications Due: Wednesday December 21, 2022 by 5:00pm EST Approximate Timeframe Consultant Agreement Issued to Successful Candidate(s): Late-January 2023 with tender notice no. 2022-12-08-001 published on 22 May 2023. The tender expired on 31 May 2023. This tender is sourced from Official Website and is eligible for suppliers interested in IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support. Interested bidders can obtain further information including complete bid documents or ways to participate by registering on Tender Impulse and referencing via Tender Impulse ID 3146113.