San Gabriel, CA – San Gabriel Valley Medical Center today announced it has been recognized as a 2013
Top Performer on Key Quality Measures
®
by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations
in the United States. San Gabriel Valley Medical Center was recognized
as part of The Joint Commission's 2014 annual report
"America's Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety," for attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability measure performance
for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, and surgical services. San
Gabriel Valley Medical Center is one of 1,224 hospitals in the United
States to achieve the 2013
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, 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, hospitals 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 (within that measure set) all applicable individual accountability
measures had a performance rate of 95 percent or above.
"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
San Gabriel Valley Medical Center for their 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.
"We understand what matters most to patients at San Gabriel Valley
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. San Gabriel Valley Medical Center
is proud to be named a
Top Performer as it recognizes the knowledge, teamwork and dedication of our entire
hospital staff," said Howard Ternes, Chief Executive Officer of the hospital.
For more information about the
Top Performer program, visit
http://www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/top_performers.aspx.