Porter Regional Hospital Earns ‘Top Performer on Key Quality Measures®’ Recognition from The Joint Commission for the Second Year

Flag-RaisingPorter Regional Hospital 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.

Porter was recognized as part of The Joint Commission’s 2015 annual report “America’s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety,” for attaining and sustaining excellence in clinical care measures. Porter 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 honor means that our community can turn to Porter Regional Hospital with confidence, knowing that we strive to provide excellent care every day,” said Porter Health Care System CEO Steve Lunn. “Following evidence-based clinical protocols close to 100 percent of the time is not an easy goal to reach, but one that has been achieved through the dedication of our physicians, nurses and other caregivers.”

The Top Performer program recognizes hospitals for improving performance on evidence-based interventions that increase the chances of healthy outcomes for patients with certain conditions. The performance measures included in the recognition program including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, children’s asthma, inpatient psychiatric services, stroke, venous thromboembolism, perinatal care, immunization, tobacco treatment and substance use.

This is the second year Porter has been recognized as a Top Performer. Porter was recognized in 2014 for its performance on accountability measure data for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care and added immunization and perinatal care to this year’s recognition.

To be a 2014 Top Performer, hospitals had to meet three performance criteria based on 2014 accountability measure data, including:

· Achieve cumulative performance of 95 percent or above across all reported accountability measures; · Achieve performance of 95 percent or above on each and every reported accountability measure with at least 30 denominator cases; and · Have at least one 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 accountability 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 Porter Regional Hospital for their excellent performance on the use of evidence-based interventions,” said Mark R. Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH,

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

Porter Health Care System has two hospital campuses and seven outpatient facilities serving Porter, Lake, LaPorte, Starke, Newton, Marshall and Jasper counties. With more than 350 physicians representing 50 medical specialties, Porter Health Care System is committed to medical excellence and personalized, patient-centered care. Porter is directly or indirectly owned by a partnership that proudly includes physician owners, including certain members of the hospital’s medical staff.