What is the DNV GL certification?
DNV GL in the US Business Assurance Healthcare Accreditation and Certification As a world-leading certification body with objectives to safeguard life, property and the environment, DNV is committed to supporting the development and continual improvement of healthcare quality and patient safety in healthcare organizations.
What is DNV certification in healthcare?
Healthcare Accreditation and Certification As a world-leading certification body with objectives to safeguard life, property and the environment, DNV is committed to supporting the development and continual improvement of healthcare quality and patient safety in healthcare organizations.
Why choose DNV for accreditation?
The accreditation programs DNV offers either directly address regulatory requirements for hospitals, such as US Government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS), or provide guidance and best practices for clinical specialty organizations across healthcare. DNV’s NIAHO® standards is approved by CMS.
How many hospitals have been accredited by DNV?
DNV’s approach to accreditation utilizes the National Integrated Accreditation for Healthcare Organizations (NIAHO®) requirements and ISO 9001:2015. At the time of this update, approximately 492 acute care hospitals have pursued DNV GL accreditation.
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What Is Accreditation?
What Is Third Party Accredited Certification?
- Accredited certification of management systems is used to demonstrate compliance to a standard in a trusted way. Using an accredited third party certification body/registrars demonstrates that the auditing company is meets the required quality standard set by the accrediting authority.
Risk Based Certification™ - Methodology
- Risk Based Certification is our exclusive approach to all management system certification. Knowing where to focus improvement efforts is critical to take control of risk elements that can threaten your business success. Before the audit starts, you provide input on what operational processes are most crucial to your business success. We evaluate how well your management s…
How Do I Become Certified by Dnv?
- A successful management system is one that is improved on a continual basis. Both your management system and certificate have to be maintained. Therefore, accredited certification consists of a 3-step cycle: 1. Initial certification 2. Annual maintenance of the certificate. 3. Re-certification every 3 years.
Initial Certification
- 1. Input dialogue
To tailor the audit, we need to know what is important to your organisation. We have to get a clear understanding of your business strategy and conditions that affect your ability to reach said strategy. Subsequently 1-3 focus areas on which the audit will focus are identified. The focus ar… - 2. Documentation review
Our lead auditor evaluates your management system documentation. The documentation review report summarizes any findings from this process. The report indicates if your organisation is ready to proceed with the certification audit. The documentation review can be performed prior t…
Annual Maintenance of Certificate
- At this stage you have completed the initial certification and can move on to maintenance of your certification. The scope of certification may need to be changed during the 3 year certification cycle. In case of expanding the scope the process will restart at section 2 with a documentation review (if needed) and will further follow the normal process from section 4 with a (scope exten…
Suspension Or Withdrawal of Certificates
- What happens if an organisation fails to maintain their management system and certification? DNV has a transparent procedure for suspension or withdrawal of certificates. This is applicable in situations where an organisation persistently and seriously fails to maintain compliance with the management system standard or due to other situations, as defined in the procedure for sus…
Who Makes The Certification Decision?
- The scope of certification is agreed at an early stage in the certification process. The scope of certification may however need to be expanded or reduced due to factors such as acquisitions, downsizing, adding new divisions etc. The decision to grant initial certification, renew certification or to expand or reduce the scope of certification, is made by competent and authorized personn…
Overview
DNV (formerly DNV GL) is an international accredited registrar and classification society headquartered in Høvik, Norway. The company currently has about 12,000 employees and 350 offices operating in more than 100 countries, and provides services for several industries including maritime, oil and gas, renewable energy, electrification, food and beverage and healthcare. DNV GL …
Summary
DNV's history dates from 1864, when Det Norske Veritas was established in Norway to head technical inspection and evaluation of Norwegian merchant vessels. On the other hand, Germanischer Lloyd was founded in Hamburg around the same period in 1867 by a group of 600 ship owners, ship builders and insurers. The company celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2014.
On December 20, 2012, the two companies announced the merger, which was approved by com…
Research
Every year, DNV invests heavily in research and development, amounting to 5% of its total revenue. Since 1864, DNV has always maintained a department dedicated to research that enhances and develops services, rules and standards for various industries. Many of the innovations and findings by DNV have often been used as a basis for international standards.
As of 2021, the main research programs include maritime, power & renewables, oil & gas, precisi…
Organization
DNV is organised into six business areas:
• DNV — Maritime: Classification, verification, risk-management, training and technical advisory to the maritime industry on safety, enhanced performance, fuel efficiency, etc. As a classification society, DNV sets standards for ships and offshore structures, known as Class Rules. They comprise safety, reliability and environmental requirements that vessels and other offshore mob…
Standards & regulations
DNV provides a list of standards and regulations to the public:
• DNV Rules for Classification of Ships
• DNV Rules for Classification of High Speed, Light Craft
• DNV Rules for Classification of inland navigation vessels