Joint Commission recognizes hospitals achieving quality measures
The Joint Commission’s Annual Report on Quality and Safety named 1,099 hospitals as achieving a spot on its Top Performer on Key Quality Measures program. These hospitals represent 33 percent of all Joint Commission-accredited hospitals reporting accountability measure performance data for 2012, and include general, children’s, psychiatric, surgical specialty and critical access hospitals, according to the 60-page report.
The commission is recognizing 77 percent more hospitals than last year with another 20 percent of Joint Commission-accredited hospitals just short of the Top Performer goal. In all, more than half of Joint Commission-accredited hospitals have reached or have nearly reached this distinction.
“This truly shows that we are approaching a tipping point in hospital quality performance. The results prove once again that shared goals, data, and solutions improve health care quality and contribute to better health outcomes for patients,” wrote Joint Commission President and CEO Mark Chassin, MD, MPP, MPH, in a letter prefacing the report.
The report also summarizes the performance of 3,300 Joint Commission-accredited hospitals on 47 accountability measures of evidence-based care processes closely linked to positive patient outcomes. In 2012, Joint Commission-accredited hospitals achieved 97.6 percent composite accountability measure performance on 18.3 million opportunities to perform care processes closely linked to positive patient outcomes – an improvement of 15.8 percentage points since 2002, when hospitals achieved 81.8 percent composite performance on 957,000 opportunities.
To see the full list of hospitals, go here and scroll down to the bottom of the report.