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Fort HealthCare Recognized as Top Performer

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

findadoctor-drnordlandFort HealthCare announces 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.

Fort HealthCare 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 and VTE. Fort HealthCare is one of only 1,043 hospitals out of morethan 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.

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.

“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 Fort HealthCare 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.

“Quality and safety of care is what really matters most to our patients. Fort HealthCare continues to make this a top priority to improve positive patient outcomes through evidence-based care processes,” said Michael Wallace, Fort HealthCare President and CEO. “Fort HealthCare is extremely proud to be named a Top Performer as it recognizes the knowledge, teamwork and dedication of our entire hospital staff.”

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