Iberia Medical Center announced that it 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.
Iberia
Medical Center 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 accountability measure performance for Heart Attack,
Heart Failure, Pneumonia, Surgical Care, Venous
Thromboembolism (VTE),
and Stroke. Iberia 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.
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.
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 Iberia 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 Iberia 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 Parker Templeton, FACHE,
CEO/President of Iberia Medical Center. "We are proud to be named a Top
Performer as it recognizes the knowledge, teamwork and dedication of our entire
hospital staff.”
For more information
about the Top Performer program, visit www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/top_performers.aspx.