North Shore-LIJ Health System receives NQF award

The North Shore-Long Island Jewish (LIJ) Health System has been awarded the 2010 National Quality Forum (NQF) National Quality Healthcare Award for its commitment to providing data-driven quality, transparency and patient-centered healthcare. The accolade will be presented on March 3 during NQF’s spring policy conference in Baltimore.

North Shore-LIJ is the third-largest non-profit, secular healthcare system in the U.S., with a service area of more than 5.2 million people in Long Island, Queens and Staten Island, N.Y., across 14 hospitals.

According to the Washington, D.C.-based organization, National Quality Healthcare Award recipients are selected based on the following criteria:
  • Effective prioritization of performance improvement goals;
  • Well-designed and deployed dashboard to measure and manage whole system performance;
  • Commitment to transparency;
  • Data-driven improvement of national priorities with an emphasis on care coordination and disparities reduction; and
  • Demonstrated results on publicly reported performance measures.

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