Introducing the Corporate Social Accountability Tool
Social Accountability is a framework that provides healthcare companies with the structure to become socially responsible in the communities that surround their businesses. The Corporate Social Accountability Tool builds upon existing efforts including: Safe for Health Institutions, Health Sciences Faculties, Hospital Index, Social Mission Alliance, and Corporate Social Responsibility.
The Corporate Social Accountability (CSA) Tool has six major sections that are divided into phases with corresponding standards and indicators. The six major sections represent broad, critical, and social accountability standards and include: Stakeholder Engagement, Population Accountability, Service Delivery, Recruitment, Retention, and Professional Development, Interprofessional Collaborative Practice and Societal Impact. The purpose of The Corporate Social Accountability Tool is to help healthcare companies regularly assess their progress towards greater social accountability so that their programs and services are optimally positioned to meet current and future health system needs. The Corporate Social Accountability Tool can also assist corporations in establishing priority areas for equity and quality improvement and ensure that their strategies and activities contribute to increasing interprofessional collaborative care, health equity, and quality of services. Corporate Social Accountability (CSA) is an evolution and advancement of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Process
- Health Companies complete the Corporate Social Accountability Self Assessment.
- TUFH will provide Health Companies a peer review process to validate their submission and provide feedback and recommendations on their action plan.
- TUFH will provide Health Companies a validation badge of recognition and recognize them on the Global Social Accountability platform.
- After 3 years Health Companies will review and present their progress toward becoming more Socially Accountable.
Target
- Retail Clinics
- Pharmaceutical Companies
- Community Clinics
Cost
- Free with TUFH Institutional Membership
- 50% of of TUFH Institutional Membership ($750 High Income Country; $500 Middle Income Country; $250 Low Income Country)