Chestnut Hill Hospital Is Top Performer
Philadelphia, PA – Chestnut Hill Hospital 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. Chestnut Hill Hospital was recognized by The Joint Commission for exemplary performance in using evidence-based clinical processes that are shown to improve care for certain conditions.
Chestnut Hill Hospital 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. Chestnut Hill Hospital was recognized for its achievement on the following measure sets: heart attack, heart failure, 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 represents 18 percent of accredited hospitals reporting data.
"Chestnut Hill Hospital is the only hospital in Philadelphia to be recognized two years in a row as a Top Performer," says John Cacciamani, M.D., CEO, Chestnut Hill Hospital. "Only 244 hospitals nationwide achieved that distinction," making us tops in Philadelphia and across the country. We focus on the fundamentals – quality, safety and treating patient with compassion – every day. That enables us to deliver great care, in our community."
Last year, Chestnut Hill Hospital was recognized by The Joint Commission for its achievement on the same four measure sets: attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care.
Each of the hospitals that were named as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures met two 95 percent (95/95) 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. "This capacity for continual improvement points toward a future in which quality and safety defects are dramatically reduced and high reliability is sought and achieved with regularity. Such day-to-day progress will slowly but surely transform today's health care system into one that achieves unprecedented performance outcomes for the benefit of the patients."
"We understand that what matters most to patients at Chestnut Hill Hospital is safe, effective care. That's why Chestnut Hill Hospital has made a commitment to accreditation and to positive patient outcomes through evidence-based care processes. Chestnut Hill Hospital is proud to be named to the list of The Joint Commission's Top Performers on Key Quality Measures," says Dr. Cacciamani.