The board is set up to establish and operate accreditation programme for healthcare organizations. NABH have designed an exhaustive healthcare standard for hospitals and healthcare providers. This standard consists of stringent 600 plus objective elements for the hospital to achieve in order to get the NABH accreditation. These standards are divided between patient centered standards and organization centered standards.

NABH accreditation helps planners to promote, implement, monitor and evaluate robust practice in order to ensure that it occupies a central place in the development of the health care system. Thus the objective of NABH accreditation is on continuous improvement in the organizational and clinical performance of health services, not just the achievement of a certificate or award or merely assuring compliance with minimum acceptable standards.