SDW news brief: Joint Commission top hospitals list shuns academic medical centers
Staff Development Weekly: Insight on Evidence-Based Practice in Education, September 16, 2011
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Joint Commission president Mark Chassin on Wednesday issued the agency's first collective assessment of the best hospitals in the nation, naming 405 systems based on achieving a 95% compliance score for risk-adjusted process measures, such as care for patients with surgical care, heart failure, heart attack and childhood asthma.
And, Chassin criticized other highly popular "Best Hospitals" lists published annually, saying they use "flawed" methodologies.
The performance statistics reported Wednesday by the commission have been available on the agency's website and on Medicare compare for some time. But Chassin said that the public "expects even greater transparency. They want to know how the hospitals where they receive care are performing" and lists them "all in one place."
These 405 hospitals make up 14% of the nation's hospitals that the Joint Commission accredits, and covers care processes related to heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, children's asthma.
To the surprise of many, hospitals with some of the most prominent national reputations—such as those held up as a model for health reform including the Mayo Clinic, the Cleveland Clinic, Geisinger Medical Center, and Johns Hopkins University—are not on the Joint Commission's list.
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Source: HealthLeaders Media
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