Flowers Hospital: nearing perfection on core measures Flowers Hospital: nearing perfection on core measures

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): Clinical Protocols Hospitals, Community Hospitals, Proprietary Organizational Case Studies Organizational Innovation Patient Care Management -- methods Process Assessment, Health Care -- organization & administration Alabama United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.) Genre(s): Technical Report Abstract: Vital Signs. Location: Dothan, Ala., near Georgia and Florida borders Type: Nonteaching, for-profit community hospital owned by Community Health Systems, Inc., of Franklin, Tenn. Beds: 235. Distinction: Top 1 percent of hospitals in composite of 22 process-of-care quality measures among roughly 2,000 hospitals (about half of U.S. acute-care hospitals) 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 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: 101530743 (See catalog record) Permanent Link: http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101530743