Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Carney Hospital today announced it has been recognized as a 2013 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® (Top Performer) by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States. Carney Hospital 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 Failure, Pneumonia and Surgical Care.

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.

This marks the second consecutive year Carney Hospital has been recognized as a Top Performer on these key measures, making Carney Hospital just one of only 712 hospitals to achieve the Top Performer distinction for the past two years.

To be a 2013 Top Performer, hospitals had to meet three performance criteria based on 2013 accountability measure data, including:

• 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.

“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 Carney Hospital 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.

“Recognition as a Top Performer by The Joint Commission reflects the tremendous dedication of our medical staff, nursing team and all of our employees to the delivery of excellent care every day,” said Carney Hospital president, Andy Davis. “We work hard and are very proud to bring this level of outstanding care to Dorchester and the surrounding communities,” continued Davis.

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

About Carney Hospital
A member of Steward Health Care System LLC, Carney Hospital has served the City of Boston and neighboring communities for more than 150 years since its establishment in 1863. Today, from its location in the neighborhood of Dorchester, the 159-bed hospital and staff, which includes more than 300 physicians, delivers quality care to approximately 37,000 patients annually. Carney Hospital provides Dorchester and surrounding communities with convenient, local access to quality primary care, emergency medicine and a range of specialties and subspecialties including; critical care, family medicine, cardiology, neurology, oncology, orthopedics, ambulatory care and adolescent, adult and geriatric psychiatry.

Carney Hospital has received the Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for health care quality and safety.