NIAHO is designed from the ground up to drive quality transformation into the core processes of running a hospital. NIAHO helps healthcare organizations meet their national accreditation obligations and achieve ISO 9001 compliance in the same seamless program. Our surveys are conducted annually. The results are transformative.

NIAHO^SM compresses the survey cycle from every three years to annually, thereby ensuring continual quality improvement.

As a global leader in standards and industry certifications, we know that infrequent surveys create a fire-drill effect that drains valuable resources and provides little lasting value to the organisation being audited.

Our goal is to offer healthcare organizations and companies a new alternative to hospital accreditation. The NIAHO^SM program is the first new hospital accreditation program in the United States in 40 years.

DNV has already accredited 27 hospitals in 22 states participating in the NIAHO^SM program.

DNV (Det Norske Veritas) was established in 1864 and is an independent foundation with a purpose to safeguard life, property and the environment. Increasing patient safety and reducing errors in healthcare is an important part of that purpose.

On 27 July, 2007, DNV acquired TUV Healthcare Specialists which was actively developing NIAHO^SM. DNV’s experience in hospital evaluations and rating spans the globe. DNV has been awarded by UK’s NHSLA (National Health services Litigation Authority) a five year programme to evaluate and rate the hundreds of hospitals it controls in England.

Furthermore, DNV has issued 1,200 ISO certificates to healthcare facilities worldwide, including hospitals, outpatient clinics, diagnostic centres, laboratories, nursing homes and homecare centres.

Headquarters for DNV Healthcare Inc. is Houston, Texas, with offices in Cincinnati, Ohio and we maintain survey staff throughout the United States.