St. Mary's Health Center: focus on core measures improves quality
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Case study. High-performing health care organization
- Author(s):
- Silow-Carroll, Sharon, author
- Contributor(s):
- Commonwealth Fund, issuing body.
- Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Commonwealth Fund, April 2009
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Guideline Adherence -- organization & administration Hospitals, Religious Hospitals, Voluntary Organizational Case Studies Process Assessment, Health Care -- organization & administration Abstracting and Indexing Attitude of Health Personnel Benchmarking Clinical Protocols -- standards Medical Audit Practice Guidelines as Topic Quality Indicators, Health Care -- statistics & numerical data Humans Missouri United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Vital Signs. Location: Jefferson City, Mo. Type: Faith-based, full-service hospital, part of the not-for-profit SSM Health Care system. Beds: 167. Distinction: Top 1 percent (with a score of 97.9% compliance) in composite of 24 process-of-care quality measures, among more than 2,000 hospitals--about half of U.S. acute-care hospitals--eligible for the analysis. Timeframe: January through December 2007. See Appendix A for full methodology. This case study describes the strategies and factors that appear to contribute to high adherence to process-of-care, "core" measures at St. Mary's Health Center. It is based on information obtained from interviews with key hospital personnel and materials provided by the hospital from October 2008 through March 2009.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (15 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101530754 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101530754