Hospital Newspaper - NY December, 2014
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Good Samaritan, Mercy and St. Charles named Top Performers Only four named on Long Island Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center, Mercy Medical Center and St. Charles Hospital, all members of Catholic Health Services, have been ranked Top Performers on Key Quality Measures™ by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the U.S. They are among just four Long Island hospitals to achieve this designation. The ratings are based on an aggregation from the accountability measure data reported to The Joint Commission during the 2013 calendar year. “We strive to deliver quality care. The Joint Commission’s ranking recognizes our hospitals’ extraordinary level of commitment to sustaining this level of care across a wide spectrum of performance measures,” said CHS Senior Vice
President for Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer Patrick M. O’Shaughnessy, DO. “Everyone at CHS is proud of the patient care teams at Good Samaritan, Mercy and St. Charles.” Earning a place on the Top Performers list for the fourth consecutive year, St. Charles, Port Jefferson, most recently received this recognition for pneumonia, surgical care and stroke measures. For a second year, Mercy, Rockville Centre, excelled in heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care. Good Samaritan, West Islip, excelled in measures of heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care. The three hospitals achieved a performance of 95% or above on a single, composite score that includes all the accountability measures in data reported to
The Joint Commission, for every one of which each hospital also met a 95% performance threshold, excluding any measures with fewer than 30 eligible cases or patients. In addition to Joint Commission accreditation, Good Samaritan, Mercy and St. Charles—along with other CHS hospitals—participate in the New York State Partnership for Patients, a quality and safety initiative developed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Both Good Samaritan and St. Charles earned a place among the Best Hospitals for 2014–2015, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report, along with St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center®. In addition, CHS’s Our Lady of Consolation and St. Catherine of Siena were recognized as among the Best Nursing Homes in the nation.
St. Catherine of Siena Medical Center earned the 2013 Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus award. St. Joseph Hospital earned the Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus award and received Recognition for Outstanding Commitment to Quality Patient Care from the American Nurses Association’s National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators for 2011-2013. Catholic Health Services (CHS) is an integrated system encompassing some of the region’s finest health and human services agencies. With six acute care hospitals, three nursing homes, a home nursing service, hospice, a communitybased agency for persons with special needs and a regional lab, CHS’s high standards have resulted in a nearly 24% market share.
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