The WAEH supports the Worldwide Patient Safety Initiative to address LASA Eye and Ear related Medication Errors of the American Association of Eye and Ear Centers of Excellence (AAEECE). The LASA (Look – alike – Sound – alike) Issue: some examples**EXAMPLES OF LOOK-ALIKE OPHTHALMIC...

UZ Leuven has become the first hospital in Belgium to receive the internationally recognised JCI accreditation. Joint Commission International (JCI) is an organisation which sets the international JCI standards for care quality and patient safety. If inspection by JCI shows that the care institution’s...

4 January 2011 The board of the WAEH welcomes the Tianjin Medical University Eye Centre in China as a new member. The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a world wide network of eye hospitals. All member-hospitals are “centres of excellence” in the area of ophthalmology and focus...

29 april 2011 The board of the WAEH welcomes the Cao Thang International Eye Hospital in Vietnam as a new associate member. The CT International Eye Hospital is one of the few dedicated, comprehensive eye institutes in Vietnam. It’s internationally recognized staff diagnoses and treats the...

In 2011 the WAEH meeting will take place in London and Leuven from Saturday 11 June till Thursday 16 June. Want to participate? Please e-mail to Maaike van Zuilen: maaike@philogirl.nl Programme WAEH 2011

27 June 2011 The board of the WAEH welcomes the Institute of Ophthalmic Science – Angeles Lomas Hospital Mexico as a new associate member. The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a world wide network of eye hospitals and is happy to welcome the Institute of Ophthalmic Science – ...

30 June 2011 The board of the WAEH welcomes the Kim’s Eye Hospital – Seoul from Korea as a new associate member. The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a world wide network of eye hospitals and is happy to welcome Kim’s Eye Hospital – Seoul from Korea as one of...

The World Health Organization has estimated that the number of blind people in the world could double in the next 25 years. It has dedicated the ‘World Sight Day’ as a day to raise awareness on blindness, preventing visual impairment and restoring sight. In Singapore, to combat the leading...

During World Sight Day 2012 several WAEH-members have organized all kinds of activities to give attention to blindness and vision impairment. World Sight Day 2014 is on 9 October 2014.

“Which hospitals provide the best medical healthcare to patients with a very serious and complex illness in a specific field of healthcare?” This question has been asked to a group of Belgium general practitioners and specialists. The EAEH would like to congratulate the EAEH-member...

Rotterdam, June 15, 2012 – On Wednesday June 6, the English version of Rotterdam Eye Hospital’s special app for children was launched in Bangkok (Thailand). The launch of the ‘To the Eye Hospital’ app took place during the annual meeting of the World Association of Eye Hospitals, a global association...

The WAEH is pleased to announce that it’s member St John Eye Hospital has been awarded the Joint Commission International (JCI) accreditation for quality and patient safety. The Joint Commission is a US-based organisation that has established patient safety and quality service standards...

The next annual meeting of the WAEH will be organized in close cooperation with the Aravind Eye Care System. We welcome you to India! For more information: flyer. Today we are very happy to confirm the dates and location for this next meeting– so please save them in your agenda: Location:...

For the first time, the annual meeting of the WAEH will take place in a new continent, in a country full of history and development. We welcome you to Mexico City, Mexico. Interested in the program of the 2013-meeting? Program 2013 Today we are very happy to confirm the dates and location...

The board of the WAEH welcomes the St. John from Jerusalem Eye Hospital as a new full member. The World Association of Eye Hospitals is a world wide network of eye hospitals and is happy to welcome the St. John from Jerusalem Eye Hospital as one of it’s members. All member-hospitals are “centres...

The annual WAEH-meeting has taken place in Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallin and Tartu.Overall theme WAEH 2009: ‘eye care network development’Eye care network development: Cooperation in primary health careFranchise Network Development country wide Innovations: The boundary of our eye product...

2 June 2009 – The initiative Team Resource Management of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital has won the Dutch IGZ ZorgVeiligPrijs (Safe Health Care Award). That was announced by Inspector General Gerrit van der Wal on June 11th at the yearly patient safety congress of the IGZ (Dutch Health Care Inspectorate)....