Luther Midelfort Mayo Health System: laying tracks for success
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Case study. High-performing health care organization
- Contributor(s):
- Edwards, Jennifer. Commonwealth Fund.
- Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Commonwealth Fund, [2008]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Benchmarking Hospitals, Rural Organizational Case Studies Organizational Innovation Process Assessment (Health Care) -- organization & administration Leadership Organizational Culture Quality Assurance, Health Care -- organization & administration Quality Indicators, Health Care -- statistics & numerical data Total Quality Management Humans United States Wisconsin Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Vital Signs. Location: Eau Claire, Wis. Type: Nonprofit, physician-led integrated health system, including three rural critical access hospitals (nonteaching) and 220-physician multi-specialty clinic with 12 outpatient locations Beds: 305. Distinction: Top 1 percent of hospitals in composite of 22 process-of-care quality measures among roughly 2,000 hospitals (about half of acute care hospitals in the U.S.) eligible for this analysis; also scored in top 1 percent of hospitals for prevention of surgical infections. Timeframe: Second quarter of 2006 through first quarter of 2007. To be included, hospitals must have submitted data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for all 22 measures, with a minimum of at least 30 cases for at least one measure in each of four clinical areas. See Appendix A for full methodology.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101530745 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101530745