 According to a study published in the June 2008 issue of the
Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, the PeaceHealth system was
ranked fourth nationally for quality of care and was the top-ranked health system in the
West. Click here for more details on the study’s results and a ranking of the country’s 73 largest health systems.
The study is the first to measure quality at the hospital system level and to review how “system characteristics relate to performance.” It reviewed hospital quality data in four clinical areas: pneumonia, surgical infection prevention, acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) and congestive heart failure.
The study also noted: “Systems vary greatly in terms of quality of care in each of the four clinical areas, with for-profit and more decentralized systems reporting appreciably lower quality of care.”
While the report suggests there is concern about large health systems with low performance levels, it recommends recognition of those systems — such as PeaceHealth — that are able to maintain high levels of performance in multiple clinical areas. |