Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Earn "Top Performer" Designations from The Joint Commission
Three hospitals of the Mount Sinai Health System -- Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai Roosevelt -- have each been designated a 2013 "Top Performer on Key Quality Measures" by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States. The program recognizes health care institutions for improving performance on evidence-based interventions that increase the likelihood of good medical outcomes for patients with certain conditions.
As three of 1,224 hospitals in the U.S. to achieve the "Top Performer" distinction, Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai St. Luke's and Mount Sinai Roosevelt will be included in The Joint Commission's online annual report, America's Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety, found at http://bit.ly/1xMz5qM, and also on The Joint Commission's Quality Check® website. Mount Sinai Roosevelt and Mount Sinai St. Luke’s had also received “Top Performer” designations for 2012.
"At Mount Sinai, delivering the highest quality care and helping ensure patient health and safety have always been, and will continue to be, our top priorities, and we are proud that The Joint Commission has recognized the efforts of our physicians, nurses and other staff in these areas," said Jeremy Boal, MD, Chief Medical Officer of the Mount Sinai Health System.
The Joint Commission found that Mount Sinai's hospitals attained and sustained excellence in accountability measures – including research, accuracy of the care process, proximity of the care process to patient health outcomes, and adverse effects – in the following areas: heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care. Mount Sinai’s Top Performer hospitals met the following criteria based on 2013 accountability measure data:
• Achieving cumulative performance of 95 percent or above across all reported accountability measures;
• Achieving performance of 95 percent or above on each and every reported accountability measure where there were at least 30 denominator cases;
• Having at least one core measure set that had a composite rate of 95 percent or above, and (within that measure set) all applicable individual accountability measures had a performance rate of 95 percent or above.
“Delivering the right treatment in the right way at the right time is a cornerstone of high-quality health care,” said Mark R. Chassin, M.D., FACP, M.P.P., M.P.H., president and CEO, The Joint Commission. “I commend the efforts of the Mount Sinai Health System for their excellent performance on the use of evidence-based interventions.”
Visit http://www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/top_performers.aspx for more information about The Joint Commission’s Top Performer program.
About the Mount Sinai Health System
Mount Sinai Health System is one of the largest academic medical systems in the New York metro area, with more than 43,000 employees working across eight hospitals, over 400 outpatient practices, nearly 300 labs, a school of nursing, and a leading school of medicine and graduate education. Mount Sinai advances health for all people, everywhere, by taking on the most complex health care challenges of our time — discovering and applying new scientific learning and knowledge; developing safer, more effective treatments; educating the next generation of medical leaders and innovators; and supporting local communities by delivering high-quality care to all who need it.
Through the integration of its hospitals, labs, and schools, Mount Sinai offers comprehensive health care solutions from birth through geriatrics, leveraging innovative approaches such as artificial intelligence and informatics while keeping patients’ medical and emotional needs at the center of all treatment. The Health System includes approximately 7,300 primary and specialty care physicians; 13 joint-venture outpatient surgery centers throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester, Long Island, and Florida; and more than 30 affiliated community health centers. We are consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals, receiving high "Honor Roll" status, and are highly ranked: No. 1 in Geriatrics and top 20 in Cardiology/Heart Surgery, Diabetes/Endocrinology, Gastroenterology/GI Surgery, Neurology/Neurosurgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology/Lung Surgery, Rehabilitation, and Urology. New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai is ranked No. 12 in Ophthalmology. U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” ranks Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital among the country’s best in several pediatric specialties.
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