NCH Earns Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® Recognition from The Joint Commission
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill. (November 25, 2014) - Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH) was recently recognized as a 2013 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of healthcare organizations in the United States.
NCH was recognized for excellence in heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care accountability measures. NCH is one of 1,224 hospitals in the U.S. to achieve the 2013 Top Performer distinction and is recognized in The Joint Commission's 2014 annual report "America's Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety."
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, stroke, venous thromboembolism and perinatal care, as well as for inpatient psychiatric services and immunizations.
To be a 2013 Top Performer, NCH had to meet three performance criteria based on 2013 accountability measure data, including:
• Achieving cumulative performance of 95 percent or above across all reported accountability measures;
• Achieving performance of 95 percent or above on each and every reported accountability measure where there were at least 30 denominator cases; and
• Having at least one core measure set that had a composite rate of 95 percent or above, and all applicable individual accountability measures had a performance rate of 95 percent or above.
"We understand what matters most to patients at NCH is the quality and safety of the care they receive," says NCH CEO Steve Scogna. "That is why we have made it a top priority to improve positive patient outcomes through evidence-based care processes."
"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 NCH for their excellent performance on the use of evidence-based interventions," says Mark R. Chassin, MD, president and CEO, The Joint Commission.
About Northwest Community Healthcare (NCH)
Serving Chicago's northwest suburbs since 1959, NCH is a comprehensive, patient-centered system of care that serves more than 350,000 outpatients each year and more than 20,000 inpatients treated annually at the 496-bed acute care hospital in Arlington Heights. The award-winning hospital holds the prestigious Magnet designation for nursing excellence, is designated as a Primary Stroke Center, earned the Joint Commission's Gold Seal of Approval in 2011, and was awarded the Leapfrog Group's designation as one of the nation's Top Hospitals based on quality and safety criteria. NCH has four Immediate Care locations in the northwest suburbs and operates an NCH Easy Access walk-in clinic in Palatine. NCH has a medical staff of more than 1,000 physicians, which includes the board-certified primary care doctors and specialists of the NCH Medical Group. The individuals identified in this press release are neither agents nor employees of Northwest Community Healthcare, or any of our affiliate organizations. These physicians have selected our facility as a place where they want to treat and care for their private patients. For more information, or to find a doctor on the NCH Medical staff, visit www.nch.org.
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