Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital earns ‘Top Performer on Key Quality Measures®’ recognition from The Joint Commission

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[November 19, 2015]  LINCOLN -  Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital announced today that it has been recognized as a 2014 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States.

ALMH was recognized as part of The Joint Commission’s 2015 annual report “America’s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety,” for attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability measure performance for pneumonia, surgical care, venous thromboemoblism, and immunization. ALMH is one of only 1,043 hospitals out of more than 3,300 eligible hospitals in the United States to achieve the 2014 Top Performer distinction.

The Top Performer program recognizes hospitals for improving performance on evidence-based interventions that increase the chances of healthy outcomes for patients with certain conditions. The performance measures included in the recognition were heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, children’s asthma, inpatient psychiatric services, stroke, venous throm-boembolism, perinatal care, immunization, tobacco treatment and substance use.

This is the second year ALMH has been recognized as a Top Performer. ALMH was recognized in 2011 for its performance on accountability measure data for pneumonia and surgical care.

To be a 2014 Top Performer, hospitals had to meet three performance criteria based on 2014 accountability measure data, including:

  • 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.

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“Delivering the right treatment in the right way at the right time is a cornerstone of high-quality health care. I commend the efforts of ALMH for their excellent performance on the use of evidence-based interventions,” said Mark R. Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH, president and CEO, The Joint Commission.

“We understand what matters most to patients at ALMH is the quality and safety of the care they receive. That is why we have made it a top priority to improve positive patient outcomes through evidence-based care processes,” said Dolan Dalpoas, president/CEO at ALMH. “Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital is proud to be named a Top Performer as it recognizes the knowledge, teamwork, and dedication of our physicians, staff and volunteers.”

For more information about the Top Performer program, visit www.jointcommission.org/ accreditation/top_performers.aspx.

[Angela Stoltzenburg, Abraham Lincoln Memorial Hospital]

 

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