Nairobi Hospital

About the Company

Opened in 1954, The Nairobi Hospital has excelled in medical expertise and services provision and has deservedly earned recognition throughout East Africa and beyond as an advanced diagnostic, treatment and referral centre. Expansive investment in latest technology and medical equipment has enabled us establish leadership in medical procedures both in Kenya and outside.

We take pride in our highly qualified professionals who deliver our mission everyday, translating their knowledge and expertise to internationally compliant practices in healthcare provision. Courtesy, consideration and unreserved respect towards our patients' privacy, dignity and confidentiality has time and again helped us earn their trust and goodwill. Our dedicated nursing staff provides professional care within a friendly and comfortable environment, ensuring that being in hospital is a more pleasurable and less anxious time for our patients and their families.

Our Values
• We are visionary.
• We provide quality care to all.
• We are compassionate.
• We are professional and ethical.
• We maintain high integrity in our team.
• We are socially responsible.
• We are dynamic in healthcare provision.

Our Vision is to be the leader in healthcare within Central and Eastern Africa. We will achieve this by our commitment to quality, supporting, strengthening and involving our staff members, being innovative, leading through example and growing as an organization.

Our Mission is to provide a regional centre of excellence for quality healthcare, through efficient services and facilities.

Environmental activities

Achievements of the Hospital in environmental health and safety
The Nairobi Hospital was recently awarded 140001:2004. This certification is for effective management of the environment through the elements such as energy, water, fire and the air. To ensure disposal of medical waste, the hospital has recently renovated the state of the art incinerator. The incinerator is a two stage burner system with a capacity of 900 cubic meters per hour. The system also has a purifier to eliminate gaseous contaminates before they leave the chimney into the air.
Waste management

The Hospital has colour coding of waste bags to schemes to ensure sorting at source. We recycle papers and envelopes (with confidentiality being carefully controlled).

Our energy and water saving innovations includes:
• Lights switch off stickers
• Office checklist
• Push time taps in all public washroom
• Hand triggers and sprinklers for gardening instead of hose pipe

Training
Training on the Environmental system is critical to the success of the system.
There are over 16 environmental auditors in the Hospital who are trained to audit the system. Most to the staff at the Hospital has undergone operators training to manage and use the system.
Inspection
Random and surveillance inspections are carried out by the certification body to ensure the system is operational at all times.

The Nairobi Hospital Environment, Health and Safety Policy Statement
The Nairobi Hospital is committed to managing environmental, health and safety matters as an integral part of our operations.

The environment goals of the Hospital are to protect the environment, patients, employees, neighbors and all other customers.

This commitment will be fulfilled by proactive implementation of procedures and programs to prevent pollution; compliance with all applicable legal and regulatory requirements and employment of management systems designed to prevent activities that pose a threat to human health, safety or the environment.

The Hospital will champion the cause for conservation and prudent use of renewable sources of energy. We will minimize the waste generated and work towards the safe treatment and disposal of waste.

The Hospital will have a continuous format on communication to all persons working for or on behalf of the organization, and how to communicate to the public.

This policy statement has been made available to the public by use of notice boards and The Nairobi Hospital Website http://www.nairobihospital.org/

We will seek opportunities for continual improvement to our environment, health and safety management and periodically report assessment progress in line with our set objectives and targets.

Dr. Cleopa Mailu, EBS
Chief Executive Officer
1st November 2007

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