The Hospital is required to adhere to a set of objective elements and standards as prescribed by the NABH standards document. There are 10 Chapters with 45 standards and 167 objective elements that a Hospital has to adhere to.

When the Hospital can demonstrate adherence to these, an application can be made to NABH. NABH Assessors physically visit the Hospital and assess adherence to the standards. A non-compliance report is provided by the Assessor and the Hospital is expected to correct. If the compliances are inline with expectations, the Assessor forwards the application to the Accreditation committee and the Committee awards a certificate.