Ensure Safety.
Build Trust.
Where Hotel Standards Prioritize
Safety, Health, and Guest Experience
With GBAC Star™ / GHA WellHotel® Accreditation, guests know your hotel is committed to excellence while implementing the industry’s highest standards for cleaning, disinfection, and guest experience.
GBAC Star™/ GHA WellHotel®
for Medical Travel
The medical traveler seeks a hotel that provides a guest experience that supports healthcare recovery. GBAC Star™ / GHA WellHotel® for Medical Travel offers guests assurance and peace of mind that your organization complies with industry-wide cleaning and sanitation standards and meets the unique expectations and needs of a medical traveler.
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GBAC Star™ / GHA WellHotel®
for Well-Being
A wellness traveler seeks a hotel that provides a guest experience supporting a healthy lifestyle, whether traveling for business, tourism, or to a hotel and resort as a destination for well-being. GBAC Star™/GHA WellHotel® for Wellbeing offers guests confidence and peace of mind that the organization is committed to excellence and complies with the highest industry-wide cleaning and sanitation, standards while meeting the unique needs of guests focused on their health and wellbeing.
PURCHASE NOW →Accreditation in Medical Travel + Well-being
Hotels and resorts that have programs focused on both the wellness and medical traveler can earn both program seals at the same time through a combined application process, expanding your demand from both niche groups of clientele.
PURCHASE NOW →Prepare, Respond, Sustain
Prepare
Provide your staff with education and training for infection prevention and the delivery of a safe, trusted guest experience for wellness seeker and/or medical traveler.
Respond
Understand how to assess, contain, monitor, and mitigate risk associated with the entire care continuum for a health traveler to protect your guests, employees, and the community at large.
Sustain
Develop and implement programs and safety protocols to ensure your organization maintains its effectiveness against infectious agents and facilitates a safe and highly satisfactory guest experience for medical and wellbeing travelers.
Two Trusted Accreditation Bodies
The unique collaboration between GBAC and GHA for hotel accreditation is designed to leverage your organization’s strengths to benefit your hotel and guest experience around the globe by:
- Providing a third-party survey review and trusted co-branded GBAC/GHA STAR™ seal to accredited hotels that builds trust, confidence, and comfort for medical travel guests.
- Assisting medical travel guests to understand and use appropriate safety protocols for travel and accommodation prior to and post travel, as well as during treatment.
- Assuring guests that the hotel has been cleaned and disinfected to the highest standards.
- Providing assurance to medical traveler guests that the hotel meets the cultural, dietary, religious, handicapped access, and other unique needs of the guests/patients.
- Instilling peace of mind that proper cleaning is an ongoing facility management priority.
- Ensuring a trained team of staff to prevent biorisk situations and manage medical and wellness guest travel experience.
- Helping to prepare a facility to respond to and mitigate risks impacting employee and guest health and well-being.
- Exceeding expectations by focusing on the entire continuum of care including physical health and well-being from takeoff to arrival– and beyond.
The Accreditation Process
This virtual accreditation is performance-based, practical, and offers comprehensive online training as an integral and complimentary component of the process. Hotels seeking to gain the trust and confidence of guests obtain a strong foundation of work practices and protocols that are sustainable over time.
Facility submits application
An application will be completed by the facility upon the decision to move forward with the accreditation process and a deposit will be taken to continue.
Facility receives accreditation materials
The handbooks and other program materials will be sent to the facility to ensure qualifications are met and necessary refinements are made.
Training on the GBAC Star™ / GHA WellHotel® Elements
Hotel management and staff will have access to instructional videos on how to implement the program elements.
Documentation Submitted
Facility will submit requested documentation for review by GBAC Star/ GHA WellHotel Accreditation Committees.
Facility is officially accredited
The facility becomes officially accredited and receives the official seals once final payment is made.
Accreditation Standards
The GHA component of the co-branded GBAC/GHA STAR™ Program for hotels serving medical travel/tourism guests is based on 18 elements. This Implementation Guidance document is structured in a manner where specific requirements which are referred to as the “18 elements” are stated in a frame-box with the guidance and interpretation beneath. Guidance has been provided as an aid in interpreting these requirements.
The GHA/WellHotel® Program Elements
The GBAC STAR™ Program Elements
Who Is Accreditation For?
From the small boutique property to the big brand, GBAC Star™/ GHA WellHotel® provides an unmatched framework for hoteliers.
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Options & Fees
Wellness and medical travel represent over $700 billion of global travel each year. Reopening now demands a higher bar to meet guest expectation of security. Show your guests you are committed to ensuring their safety, and building their trust.
$4,000 USD
$5,000 USD
$8,500 USD
Need help establishing which option is best for you? Contact us.
Already GBAC STAR Accredited?
GBAC Star™/ GHA WellHotel® from Global Healthcare Accreditation supports organizations in reopening to traveling health and wellness seekers in a comprehensive, transparent, and easily communicated fashion.
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