Improving primary healthcare through accreditation: baseline assessment of readiness and challenges in lebanese context

The quality of primary healthcare (PHC) has become of high importance. In 2009, the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health launched the PHC accreditation program to expand and improve quality across the continuum of care. This study will explore the readiness of PHC centers in Lebanon to implement the newly developed accreditation standards including challenges and required actions/strategies. Seventy-two centers were sampled, and respondents were …