Physicians Regional Healthcare System Nationally Recognized as Top Performer by The Joint Commission
11/17/2015
November 17, 2015, Naples, FL We are pleased to announce The Joint Commission has named Physicians Regional Healthcare System as a 2014 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® The hospitals are two of only 1,043 hospitals in the United States to achieve this distinction based on excellence in accountability measure performance.
Physicians Regional has been recognized for its achievement on the following 2014 accountability measure sets: Heart Attack, Heart Failure, Pneumonia, Surgical Care, and Immunization.
“Our team has worked diligently to achieve this recognition,” said Susan McKinley, MMgt, CPHQ, CPHRM, Chief Nursing Officer at Physicians Regional – Pine Ridge (and former Chief Quality Officer for Physicians Regional Healthcare System.) “We revised our physician order sets, revised our discharge instructions, improved nursing and physician clinical orientation of the core measurement requirements, and conduct concurrent review of any outliers, then provide feedback to staff.”
In order to be named a Top Performer, a hospital must:
- Achieve cumulative performance of 95 percent or above across all reported accountability measures;
- Achieve performance of 95 percent or above on each and every reported accountability measure with at least 30 denominator cases; and
- Have at least one core measure set that had a composite rate of 95 percent or above, and within that measure set, achieve a performance rate of 95 percent or above on all applicable individual accountability measures.
“We have made it a top priority at Physicians Regional to address patient safety and quality of care by improving upon evidence-based care processes that are shown to be the best treatments for certain conditions,” said Scott Lowe, Market CEO of Physicians Regional Healthcare System. “We are proud to be named a Top Performer and thank our entire health system staff and our physicians for their dedication, knowledge and teamwork.”
For more information about the Top Performer program, visit www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/top_performers.aspx.
About Physicians Regional Healthcare System
Physicians Regional Healthcare System is comprised of two premier hospitals, an affiliated multi-specialty physician group, and a medical staff of over 300 highly trained physicians. Our fully integrated campuses include 24-hour emergency rooms, state-of-the-art surgery centers, full service diagnostic departments and medical office buildings hosting various physician offices. Physicians Regional Healthcare System was recently named a “Top Performing Hospital” by The Joint Commission for Heart Attack, Heart Failure, Pneumonia, Surgical Care, and Immunization.
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