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Abstract The environmental quality standards are important to achieve the minimum essential environmental health care foundations. The environmental quality standards contain guidelines which provide a basis for setting standards at a national level when this is required. Managing the various aspects of environmental health at the level of the health - care foundation should involve all staff, as well as patients. The main outcome measures in this study that deals specifically with the essential environmental health standards required for health-care foundations are: • Assess prevailing situations and plan the improvements that are required. • Develop and reach essential safety standards as a first goal. • Support the development and application of national policies. ١٥٨ The cross sectional design was used in this study by using assessment checklists which are obtained from revision of previous research and studies performed by WHO experts in different medical departments. The assessment checklists were applied in Wadi El-Neel Hospital as accredited hospital and in Electricity Hospital as a non-accredited hospital. The assessment checklists were divided into (11) checklists which deal with different environmental elements which evaluate the efficiency of environmental quality standards application. The assessment questionnaire was applied in Wadi El-Neel Hospital as accredited hospital and in Electricity Hospital as a non-accredited hospital. The assessment questionnaire consisted of (16) questions and applied on (50) patients in each hospital in inpatient department to measure the patient satisfaction about the surrounding environmental elements. The results of the study showed that there was a defect in some environmental quality standards application in Electricity hospital in comparison with Wadi El-neel hospital because Electricity hospital did not follow the guidelines and the assessment checklists on regular time intervals to assess the situation regarding environmental health but on the other hand Wadi El-neel hospital applied most of environmental quality standards through the rules of JCI accreditation. ١٥٩ Once specific standards have been defined for a particular health- care foundation, they can be used as a checklist to determine how and to what extent the existing situation fall short of them. This will identify specific problems that need addressing. In hospital, a committee may be required for planning, coordinating and monitoring implementation of targets. Members of the committee should include managers, clinical, technical and ancillary staff. Analyzing the reasons for shortfalls in the most inclusive way possible is important because most solutions will require the participation of multiple parties including patients, careers, health-care workers and health managers. After that, steps should be taken both to prioritize improvements and to work in a phased way, so that the most urgent problems can be identified and addressed immediately, and other benefits subsequently achieved. So, this study provides comprehensive and reliableinformation on the essential environmental quality standards in hospitals. |