SRMC Earns Top Recognition
Santa Rosa Medical Center Earns Recognition from The Joint Commission as a ‘Top Performer on Key Quality Measures’ for Second Year in a Row
Santa Rosa Medical Center today was named one of the nation’s Top Performers on Key Quality Measures by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in America. Santa Rosa Medical Center was recognized by The Joint Commission for exemplary performance in using evidence-based clinical processes that are shown to improve care for certain conditions, including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, children’s asthma, stroke and venous thromboembolism, as well as inpatient psychiatric services.
Santa Rosa Medical Center is one of 620 hospitals in the U.S. earning the distinction of Top Performer on Key Quality Measures for attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability measure performance. Santa Rosa Medical Center was recognized for its achievement on the following measure sets: pneumonia and surgical care. The ratings are based on an aggregation of accountability measure data reported to The Joint Commission during the 2011 calendar year. The list of Top Performers increased by 50 percent from its debut last year and represents 18 percent of accredited hospitals reporting data.
This is the second year in a row that Santa Rosa Medical Center is being recognized as a Top Performer. Santa Rosa Medical Center is one of only 244 hospitals that achieved the distinction two years in a row. Last year, Santa Rosa Medical Center was recognized by The Joint Commission for its achievement on pneumonia and surgical care.
Santa Rosa Medical Center is one of 41 hospitals operated by Health Management Associates, Inc. to be named to the Top Performer list. It is also one of 30 Health Management hospitals to be a Top Performer in both years of this recognition program.
Each of the hospitals that were named as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures met two 95 percent performance thresholds on 2011 accountability measure data. First, each hospital achieved performance of 95 percent or above on a single, composite score that includes all the accountability measures for which it reports data to The Joint Commission, including measures that had fewer than 30 eligible cases or patients. Second, each hospital met or exceeded 95 percent performance on every accountability measure for which it reports data to The Joint Commission, excluding any measures with fewer than 30 eligible cases or patients. A 95 percent score means a hospital provided an evidence-based practice 95 times out of 100 opportunities to provide the practice. Each accountability measure represents an evidence-based practice – for example, giving aspirin at arrival for heart attack patients, giving antibiotics one hour before surgery, and providing a home management plan for children with asthma.
“When we raise the bar and provide the proper guidance and tools, hospitals have responded with excellent results,” says Mark R. Chassin, M.D., FACP, M.P.P., M.P.H., president, The Joint Commission.
“We understand that what matters most to patients at Santa Rosa Medical Center is safe, effective care. That’s why Santa Rosa Medical Center has made a commitment to accreditation and to positive patient outcomes through evidence-based care processes. It is all part of our commitment to always strive to put patients first. Santa Rosa Medical Center is proud to be named to the list of The Joint Commission’s Top Performers on Key Quality Measures,” says Phillip Wright, chief executive officer.
In addition to being included in today’s release of The Joint Commission’s “Improving America’s Hospitals” annual report, Santa Rosa Medical Center will be recognized on The Joint Commission’s Quality Check website (www.qualitycheck.org). The Top Performer program will be featured in the November issue of The Joint Commission Perspectives and the October issue of The Joint Commission: The Source.
About Santa Rosa Medical Center
Santa Rosa Medical Center is a full service 129-bed modern hospital facility. Located on Berryhill Road in Milton, Santa Rosa Medical Center is quickly and easily reached from all points in Santa Rosa County. With nearly 400 associates, over 100 volunteers and over 100 physicians on staff Santa Rosa Medical Center is well equipped to meet all of your healthcare needs. Our mission is to provide America’s best local healthcare to our community. Most recently Santa Rosa Medical Center received the American Heart/American Stroke Association Get With The Guidelines – Silver Quality Achievement Award for both stroke and heart failure. Also part of the Santa Rosa Medical Center family is the Santa Rosa Medical Group. Santa Rosa Medical Group consists of family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics & gynecology, urogynecology, neurology, pulmonology, and general surgery practices as well as our walk-in care and occupational health clinics. Santa Rosa Medical Center…Close By, Far Better. For more information please visit www.SRMCFL.com, or call 850.626.7762.
