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Quality Measures
The Joint Commission
Click to read our COMPLETE Gold Seal of Approval online report from The Joint Commission.
The Joint Commission has had a longstanding commitment to providing meaningful information about the comparative performance of accredited organizations to the public. In 1994, The Joint Commission first published organization-specific Performance Reports. In 1996, Quality Check®, a directory of Joint Commission accredited organizations and performance reports, became available on the website. In 2004, Quality Reports replaced Performance Reports, although historical Performance Reports are still available.
Improvements continued in 2005 and 2006 with a redesign of Quality Check. The process included extensive testing, field surveys and input from consumer focus groups and stakeholders, including four advisory groups and state hospital associations. The feedback was used to refine and clarify Quality Reports for both health care professionals and the public.
United States Department of Health & Human Services
Click to read our COMPLETE online report from the United States Department of Health & Human Serivces.
The Hospital Compare website was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), along with the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA). The HQA is a public-private collaboration established to promote reporting on hospital quality of care. The HQA consists of organizations that represent consumers, hospitals, doctors and nurses, employers, accrediting organizations, and Federal agencies. The information on this website can be used by any adult needing hospital care.
Hospital Compare displays rates for Process of Care measures that show how often hospitals provide some of the care that is recommended for patients being treated for a heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia, or patients having surgery. Hospitals voluntarily submit data from their medical records about the treatments their adult patients receive for these conditions, including patients with Medicare and those who do not have Medicare.
Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council
Click to read online our 2006 Hospital Performance Report from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
Click to read online our 2006 Financial Analysis Report from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
Click to read online our Hip and Knee Replacement Report from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
Click to read online our 2005 Hospital Acquired Infections Report from the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council is an independent state agency responsible for addressing the problem of escalating health costs, ensuring the quality of health care, and increasing access for all citizens regardless of ability to pay.
In the first of its kind, PHC4's new report expands to include heart bypass, valve and combination bypass and valve procedures as well as average commercial insurance and Medicare payments for individual hospitals.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement's Rapid Response Teams
Click to read the COMPLETE list of participating United States Hospitals in the 5 Million Lives Campaign.
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) is a not-for-profit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout the world. IHI was founded in 1991 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. IHI's work is funded primarily through our own fee-based program offerings and services, and also through the generous support of a distinguished group of foundations, companies, and individuals.
IHI is joined in the 5 Million Lives Campaign by a group of participants and partners deeply committed to transforming the quality of care in the US. We appreciate their support and we welcome others to rapid response teams.
D2B: An Alliance for Quality
Click to read the COMPLETE list of participating United States Hospitals in the D2B Alliance.
D2B: An Alliance for QualityTM is a new Guidelines Applied in Practice (GAP) program launched by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to save time and save lives by reducing the door-to-balloon times in U.S. hospitals performing primary PCI. A growing list of other organizations, including the American Heart Association (AHA) and the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, are partners in this effort.
 
American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines
Click to read the COMPLETE the Get With The Guidelines ad in U.S. News & World Report (2007).
Get With The GuidelinesSM (GWTG) is the American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association's hospital-based program designed to ensure that patients are consistently treated and discharged according to evidence-based guidelines for coronary artery disease, heart failure, and stroke. This quality improvement program empowers healthcare teams to save lives and reduce healthcare costs through helping hospitals follow evidence-based guidelines and recommendations for treating coronary artery disease, heart failure, and stroke. Experience has shown that 80,000 lives could be saved annually if the coronary artery disease (GWTG-CAD) module alone of Get With The GuidelinesSM were implemented nationwide. GWTG was the first hospital-based program to receive the prestigious Innovation in Prevention Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in 2004. Currently almost 2,000 hospitals use one or more GWTG modules. GWTG-CAD is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from the Merck/Schering-Plough Pharmaceutical Partnership and GWTG- Heart Failure is supported by an unrestricted grant from Glaxo Smith Kline, Inc.
Thompson Top 100 Hospitals
Click to read the COMPLETE list of the 100 Top Hospitals Performance Improvement Leaders, 2006.
The fourth edition of the Thomson 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders study found that hospitals that improved the most from 2001 – 2005 were more successful in growing their outpatient services and focused on shifting coronary care to the outpatient setting.
The study rated hospitals on eight factors: patient mortality, medical complications, patient safety, length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, and growth in patient volume.
2007 Pennsylvania Distinguished Hospital-Patient Safety
Click to read the COMPLETE list of winners.
2008 Pennsylvania Cardiac Surgery Excellence
Click to read the COMPLETE list of winners.
2008 Northeastern Pennsylvania Coronary Bypass Surgery BEST Rating
Click to read the COMPLETE list of ratings.
2008 Pennsylvania Women’s Health Excellence Award
Click to read the COMPLETE list of ratings.
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