Heritage Valley Health System today announced its Sewickley campus has
been recognized as a 2013 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures®
by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations
in the United States. Heritage Valley Sewickley was recognized as part of The Joint
Commission’s 2014 annual report “America’s Hospitals: Improving
Quality and Safety,” for attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability
measure performance for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, and surgical care.
Heritage Valley Sewickley is one of 1,224 hospitals in the United States to achieve
the 2013 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, including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, children’s
asthma, stroke, venous thromboembolism and perinatal care, as well as for inpatient
psychiatric services and immunizations.
To be a 2013 Top Performer,
hospitals had to meet three performance criteria based on 2013 accountability measure
data, including:
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- 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; and - 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
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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 Heritage Valley Sewickley for their excellent performance
on the use of evidence-based interventions,” said Mark R. Chassin, M.D., FACP,
M.P.P., M.P.H., president and CEO, The Joint Commission.
“We
understand what matters most to patients at Heritage Valley 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 Norm
Mitry, President and CEO of Heritage Valley Health System. “Heritage
Valley Sewickley is proud to be named a Top Performer as it recognizes
the knowledge, teamwork and dedication of our entire hospital medical staff and
employees.”
For more information about the Top Performer
program, visit
http://www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/top_performers.aspx.*
*Heritage
Valley Sewickley is listed in the report as “Valley Medical Facilities, Sewickley,”
the legal name of the organization.
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About
Heritage Valley Health System
Heritage Valley Health System
is a $450 million integrated delivery network providing comprehensive health care
for residents of Allegheny, Beaver, Butler and Lawrence counties, in Pennsylvania;
eastern Ohio; and the panhandle of West Virginia. In partnership with 3,800 employees
and more than 450 physicians, Heritage Valley offers a broad range of medical, surgical
and diagnostic services at its two hospitals, Heritage Valley Sewickley and Heritage
Valley Beaver; in 72 physician offices; and 14 community satellite facilities.
For more information about Heritage Valley Health System, please visit www.heritagevalley.org.