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The Dawn Wellness Centre and Rehab Thailand Certification
The Dawn drug and alcohol rehab Thailand is accredited for Psychiatric and Behavioural Health Services by the American Accreditation Commission International (AACI), a globally-reputed body overseeing clinical excellence in health care. Accreditation was approved following a rigorous auditing process to ensure our organisation’s policies and standard operating procedures are in compliance with /conform to the following AACI standards.
1.REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
- The Dawn is in compliance with applicable national laws and regulations related to the client’s health and safety
- The Dawn has a policy and systems to ensure that personnel are licensed, educated and trained or meet the applicable standards and national laws and regulations.
2. ORGANIZATION ETHICS
- The Dawn establishes a framework, administration and processes by a set of ethical principles or code of conduct, with respect to Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Equal remuneration for male and female workers for work of equal value, Occupational Safety and Health, Vocational Rehabilitation
3. QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
- Quality Management System is implemented, maintained, measured, developed, and controlled for the effectiveness of all services operation.
4. PATIENT SAFETY SYSTEM
- AACI has established a universal patient safety program pertinent to all accredited organizations. Key indicators monitoring and measuring will be established by AACI on an annual basis. These indicators shall be determined by current conditions relevant to patient safety in the accredited organization. The accredited organization shall promote and ensure an environment and culture of patient/staff safety.
5. STAFFING MANAGEMENT
- The accredited organization shall have a policy and practice for outlining and verifying that each staff member possesses a valid and current license, registration or certification. All staff, whether clinical or supportive, including contract staff, students and volunteers shall have a current job description (or job responsibilities) available that contains the experience, educational, physical requirements, supervision and performance expectations for that position.
- The healthcare organization shall have adequate numbers of professional personnel in order to evaluate patients and to formulate individualized treatment plans.
6. NURSING SERVICES
- The nursing service shall ensure that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patients’ needs and provision of nursing staff to meet those needs. There shall be sufficient numbers, types and qualifications of supervisory and staff nursing personnel to respond to the appropriate nursing needs and care of the patient population of each department or nursing unit. There shall be a RN physically present and immediately available on the premises of each service and on duty at all times.
7. RISK MANAGEMENT
- This process shall establish methods to define, record, analyse to identify, prioritize, mitigate, eliminate, or in the events which will or might likely create an impact upon patients, staff, and other interested parties.
8. EMERGENCY SERVICES
- The accredited organization shall have written policies and procedures for appraisal of emergencies, initial treatment, and referral when appropriate.
9. PSYCHIATRIC AND BEHAVIORAL SERVICES
- Each patient shall have an individual, comprehensive, treatment plan based on the patient’s individual requirement.
- The facility must provide a therapeutic activities program appropriate to the needs and interests of patients in order to restore and maintain optimal levels of physical and psychosocial functioning.
- Psychiatric services shall be under the supervision of a Doctor of Medicine, in accordance with National law to monitor and evaluate the quality and appropriateness of services and treatment provided by the medical staff.
- The facility shall provide and maintain appropriate facility conditions for the treatment of mental illness within its scope of service
10. PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES
- Provision of pharmaceutical services shall meet the needs of the patients’ therapeutic goals by promoting a safe medication use process that ensures optimal selection of medications, dose, dosage form, frequency, timing, route, duration of therapy and that substantially reduces or eliminates adverse drug events and duplication of treatment.
- A qualified and credentialed pharmacist director of services shall be responsible for the overall administration, developing, supervising, and coordinating the activities of the healthcare organization pharmacy service.
- Medications and biologicals shall be administered by, or under supervision of, nursing or other personnel in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. These shall include applicable licensing requirements in accordance with the approved medical staff policies and procedures.
11. INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
- The healthcare organization shall provide a sanitary environment to avoid sources and transmission of infections and communicable diseases. There shall be an active program for the prevention, control, and investigation of infections and communicable diseases.
- Infection control policies shall be integrated into the accredited organization as well as specific to each department, service, and location, including off-site locations.
12. INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT
- The medical record system shall ensure that medical record entries are not lost, stolen, destroyed, altered, or reproduced in an unauthorized manner or accessed by unauthorized personnel. Confidentiality applies to both central records and clinical record information
AACI accreditation is reviewed on an annual basis
The Dawn drug and alcohol rehab Thailand has been certified as an SHA Plus location by the Safety and Health Administration, a joint committee specially set up by the Thailand Tourism Authority and the Thai Ministry of Public Health to implement standards of health safety for venues serving tourists during the Covid-19 period
A SHA Plus certification indicates that — among enforcing other contagious prevention measures — over 70% of the employees in the certified organisation have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the internationally estimated amount of a population that needs to be vaccinated to create herd immunity.

AACI Accreditation Certificate
The Dawn is accredited for Psychiatric and Behavioural Health Services by the American Accreditation Commission International (ACCI), a globally-reputed body overseeing clinical excellence in health care. Accreditation was approved following a rigorous auditing process to ensure our organisation’s policies and standard operating procedures are in compliance with /conform to the following AACI standards.
1. REGULATORY COMPLIANCE
- The Dawn is in compliance with applicable national laws and regulations related to the client’s health and safety
- The Dawn has a policy and systems to ensure that personnel are licensed, educated and trained or meet the applicable standards and national laws and regulations.
2. ORGANIZATION ETHICS
- The Dawn establishes a framework, administration and processes by a set of ethical principles or code of conduct, with respect to Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Equal remuneration for male and female workers for work of equal value, Occupational Safety and Health, Vocational Rehabilitation
3. QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
- Quality Management System is implemented, maintained, measured, developed, and controlled for the effectiveness of all services operation.
4. PATIENT SAFETY SYSTEM
- AACI has established a universal patient safety program pertinent to all accredited organizations. Key indicators monitoring and measuring will be established by AACI on an annual basis. These indicators shall be determined by current conditions relevant to patient safety in the accredited organization. The accredited organization shall promote and ensure an environment and culture of patient/staff safety.
5. STAFFING MANAGEMENT
- The accredited organization shall have a policy and practice for outlining and verifying that each staff member possesses a valid and current license, registration or certification. All staff, whether clinical or supportive, including contract staff, students and volunteers shall have a current job description (or job responsibilities) available that contains the experience, educational, physical requirements, supervision and performance expectations for that position.
- The healthcare organization shall have adequate numbers of professional personnel in order to evaluate patients and to formulate individualized treatment plans.
6. NURSING SERVICES
- The nursing service shall ensure that patient needs are met by ongoing assessments of patients’ needs and provision of nursing staff to meet those needs. There shall be sufficient numbers, types and qualifications of supervisory and staff nursing personnel to respond to the appropriate nursing needs and care of the patient population of each department or nursing unit. There shall be a RN physically present and immediately available on the premises of each service and on duty at all times.
7. RISK MANAGEMENT
- This process shall establish methods to define, record, analyse to identify, prioritize, mitigate, eliminate, or in the events which will or might likely create an impact upon patients, staff, and other interested parties.
8. EMERGENCY SERVICES
- The accredited organization shall have written policies and procedures for appraisal of emergencies, initial treatment, and referral when appropriate.
9. PSYCHIATRIC AND BEHAVIORAL SERVICES
- Each patient shall have an individual, comprehensive, treatment plan based on the patient's individual requirement.
- The facility must provide a therapeutic activities program appropriate to the needs and interests of patients in order to restore and maintain optimal levels of physical and psychosocial functioning.
- Psychiatric services shall be under the supervision of a Doctor of Medicine, in accordance with National law to monitor and evaluate the quality and appropriateness of services and treatment provided by the medical staff.
- The facility shall provide and maintain appropriate facility conditions for the treatment of mental illness within its scope of service.
10. PHARMACEUTICAL SERVICES
- Provision of pharmaceutical services shall meet the needs of the patients’ therapeutic goals by promoting a safe medication use process that ensures optimal selection of medications, dose, dosage form, frequency, timing, route, duration of therapy and that substantially reduces or eliminates adverse drug events and duplication of treatment.
- A qualified and credentialed pharmacist director of services shall be responsible for the overall administration, developing, supervising, and coordinating the activities of the healthcare organization pharmacy service.
- Medications and biologicals shall be administered by, or under supervision of, nursing or other personnel in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. These shall include applicable licensing requirements in accordance with the approved medical staff policies and procedures.
11. INFECTION PREVENTION AND CONTROL
- The healthcare organization shall provide a sanitary environment to avoid sources and transmission of infections and communicable diseases. There shall be an active program for the prevention, control, and investigation of infections and communicable diseases.
- Infection control policies shall be integrated into the accredited organization as well as specific to each department, service, and location, including off-site locations.
12. INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT
- The medical record system shall ensure that medical record entries are not lost, stolen, destroyed, altered, or reproduced in an unauthorized manner or accessed by unauthorized personnel. Confidentiality applies to both central records and clinical record information.

SHA PLUS Certification
The Dawn has been certified as an SHA Plus location by the Safety and Health Administration, a joint committee specially set up by the Thailand Tourism Authority and the Thai Ministry of Public Health to implement standards of health safety for venues serving tourists during the Covid-19 period
A SHA Plus certification indicates that — among enforcing other contagious prevention measures — over 70% of the employees in the certified organisation have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the internationally estimated amount of a population that needs to be vaccinated to create herd immunity.