St. Mary Medical Center Earns ‘Top Performer on Key Quality Measures’ Recognition from The Joint Commission

chs-stockSt. Mary Medical Center has been recognized as a 2014 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States.

St. Mary Medical Center was recognized in The Joint Commission’s 2015 annual report “America’s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety,” for attaining and sustaining excellence in performance for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, venous thromboembolism, and stroke. St. Mary Medical Center is one of only 1,043 hospitals out of more than 3,300 eligible hospitals in the United States to achieve the 2014 Top Performer distinction.

This is the second year St. Mary Medical Center has been recognized as a Top Performer. St. Mary Medical Center was recognized in 2013 for its performance on accountability measure data for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, and surgical care.

As a 2014 Top Performer, the hospital met three performance criteria based on 2014 accountability measure data, including:
Achieve cumulative performance of 95 percent or above across all reported quality measures;
Achieve performance of 95 percent or above on each and every reported quality measure with at least 30 patient cases; and
Have at least one quality core measure set that had a composite rate of 95 percent or above, and within that measure set, achieve a performance rate of 95 percent or above on all applicable individual quality measures.

“Delivering the right treatment in the right way at the right time is a cornerstone of high-quality health care. I commend the efforts of St. Mary Medical Center for their excellent performance on the use of evidence-based interventions,” said Mark R. Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH, president and CEO, The Joint Commission.

“We understand what matters most to patients at St. Mary Medical Center is the quality and safety of the care they receive. That is why we have made it a top priority to improve positive patient outcomes through evidence-based care processes,” said Janice Ryba, CEO of St. Mary Medical Center. “Our hospital is proud to be named a Top Performer as it recognizes the knowledge, teamwork and dedication of our entire hospital and medical staff.”

For more information about the Top Performer program, visit www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/top_performers.aspx.