Assessment of Structural and Non-structural Safety in Farabi Hospital (Iran); 2014-2016

Background and Objectives: Incident endangering patient health both reduce the quality of health services and impose considerable financial loads on hospitals and health systems. Along with examining the risks, the hospital managers need to continuously monitor the patient safety situation in their settings and increasingly improve their patient protection standards. The present study is aimed at assessing the level of functional, structural, and non-structural safety in Farabi eye hospital between 2014 and 2016. Methods: The study was carried out using qualitative methods. Study population comprised of different hospital wards and the data was collected by directly observing the wards. The data was collected using Hospital Disaster Risk Assessment (HDRA) checklist recommended by the World Health Orhanization (WHO). Findings: While functional safety level was found to be 91.83%, non-structural and structural safety levels were recorded at 31% and 58.7%. The total stately level was below 50% of the standard (47.59%). The safely condition was found to be on an improving trend. Conclusions: Although the safety situation shows gradual improvement based on 3-year data, much work and intensive focus is required to approach the standard level.