Accreditation
ÚHKT regularly undergoes accreditation processes with Czech and foreign auditors. This process helps create an environment of maximum quality and safety and thus achieves maximum results in the provided care.
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 field of patient care. Above all, it is about the availability of care and its continuity, examination and treatment of patients, respecting their rights, but also about lifelong education of healthcare workers. The standards also set rules for hospital operations and quality management, patient and employee safety, information protection, staff qualification and prevention of hospital infections. The international JCI quality certificate is awarded for 3 years, before the end of the three-year accreditation period the healthcare facility must be re-reviewed.
ÚHKT received the prestigious award from the accrediting agency in 2007 (as the third Czech facility) and according to accreditation rules it has been defending it at three-year intervals. Most recently, ÚHKT defended the JCI accreditation in 2025 (Certificate of Accreditation Award). ÚHKT 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 goal of SAK accreditation is continuous improvement in the quality and safety of healthcare. Quality assessment is performed by assessing 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 conducted according to the so-called Stopař methodology – it assesses whether care for auditors' selected patients is conducted in accordance with the facility's internal regulations, respectively in accordance with SAK accreditation standards. SAK accreditation is awarded for a period of three years. The last accreditation audit was successfully conducted at ÚHKT 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 for 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.
ÚHKT voluntarily committed to JACIE professional standards and as a center of excellence with its own research activities closely linked to the provided healthcare, in 2025 received for the second time the status of a certified transplant center (for the period April 15, 2025 to April 14, 2029). This fact facilitates participation in international clinical trials that 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). Based on professional discussion, it issues and regularly updates recommendations for standardization of methods, quality control and professional criteria for accreditation, whose implementation it assesses within the framework 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 founded 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 composed of national accreditation bodies that operate according to unified rules and accredit according to defined internationally recognized standards stems from the position of the EC specified in the Global Concept on Access to Testing and Certification.
In accordance with the requirements of international standards and documents, ČIA conducts impartial, objective and independent assessment of competence for:
- Testing and calibration laboratories (ČSN EN ISO/IEC 17025)
- Healthcare laboratories (ČSN EN ISO 15189)
Laboratory Accreditation
Complement Laboratory of ÚHKT
Continuously defends 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 annex of 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 standard Conformity Assessment – General Requirements for the Competence of Testing and Calibration Laboratories (since 2002).
HLA Department
Accredited since 2007 according to the professional standards Standards for Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics Testing of the international organization European Federation for Immunogenetics (EFI)