When it comes to treating patients who have suffered a heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, stroke or who require surgical or perinatal care, Stamford Hospital has once again been recognized as a national top performer ”” the second consecutive honor for the hospital.
The Top Performer on Key Quality Measures recognition was made by the Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States.
“This achievement demonstrates our staff”™s ongoing commitment to excellence and the application of best practices in care delivery across the organization, and this ultimately results in improved quality and safety, as well as positive patient outcomes,” said Rohit Bhalla, MD, MPH, Vice President of Quality and Chief Quality Officer at Stamford Hospital. “We are extraordinarily proud to be recognized by the Joint Commission as being among the top performers in Connecticut and the nation.
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, including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, children”™s asthma, venous thromboembolism, stroke, inpatient psychiatric services, immunizations, perinatal care, tobacco treatment, and substance abuse.
Stamford joins an elite group of only nine percent of Joint Commission-accredited hospitals across the U.S. recognized for achieving excellence in six or more key areas and is one of only three hospitals in Connecticut to receive recognition in six areas.
As reported recently by the Fairfield County Business Journal, Danbury Hospital was also recently recognized by the commission with the same honor but in the areas of heart attack, heart failure, surgical care, immunization, perinatal and pneumonia care.
Both recognitions were made in conjunction with the release of the Joint Commission”™s 2015 Annual Report “America”™s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety.”
The 2015 Joint Commission report summarizes the performance of over 3,300 Joint Commission-accredited hospitals on measures of evidence-based care linked to better patient outcomes. The measures that the Joint Commission uses to make its determination relate to care processes across an organization, including measures of care assessments, timeliness of interventions, appropriateness of medication use, patient safety, infection prevention and patient education.
To achieve the Top Performer designation, Stamford Hospital needed to achieve 95 percent or higher performance on each of 30 individual measures across all six areas of care for the entire year.
“Delivering the right treatment in the right way at the right time is a cornerstone of high-quality healthcare. I commend the efforts of Stamford Hospital for its excellent performance on the use of evidence-based interventions,” said Mark R. Chassin, M.D., FACP, M.P.P., M.P.H., President and CEO, The Joint Commission.
