Joint Commission Names South Nassau “Top Performer on Key Quality Measures®”

OCEANSIDE, N.Y. - Dec. 19, 2014 - PRLog -- For the second consecutive year, the Joint Commission has named South Nassau Communities Hospital a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® for its exemplary use of evidence-based clinical processes that are shown to improve care for certain conditions.  South Nassau was recognized for its achievement on the following measure sets: heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care.

         "This recognition is a direct result of our commitment to our mission to provide the communities and patients we serve with safe, quality, compassionate healthcare that they deserve,” said Richard J. Murphy, South Nassau’s president and CEO.  “Our team of experienced, compassionate, dedicated doctors and nurses are steadfast in their commitment to the highest standards in patient safety.”

South Nassau is one of 1,224 hospitals in the U.S. to earn the distinction of Top Performer on Key Quality Measures.  The ratings are based on an aggregation of accountability measures data reported to The Joint Commission during the 2013 calendar year. The list of Top Performer organizations represents 36.9 percent of all Joint Commission-accredited hospitals reporting accountability measure performance data for 2013.

The Joint Commission Top Performer honor joins a multitude of others South Nassau has earned for  outstanding quality in 2014, including: Get With The GuidelinesStroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award; American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC) Magnet® recognition; Joint Commission Advanced Certification for Primary Stroke Centers; Joint Commission Disease-specific Certification in End-stage Renal Disease; and HomeCare Elite™, listing South Nassau’s Home Care as one of the top home health care providers in the United States (for the ninth consecutive year).

To achieveTop Performer on Key Quality Measures, South Nassau:

·         achieved cumulative performance of 95 percent or above across all reported accountability measures;

·         achieved performance of 95 percent or above on each and every reported accountability measure where there are at least 30 denominator cases;  and

·         had at least one core measure set that was a composite rate of 95 percent or above, and (within that measure set) all applicable individual accountability measures had to have a performance rate of 95 percent or above.

Each accountability measure represents an evidence-based practice – for example, giving aspirin at arrival for heart attack patients, giving antibiotics one hour before surgery, and providing a home management plan of care for children with asthma.

         Designated a Magnet® hospital by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), South Nassau® Communities Hospital is one of the region’s largest hospitals, with 455 beds, more than 900 physicians and 3,000 employees.  Located in Oceanside, NY, the hospital is an acute-care, not-for-profit teaching hospital that provides state-of-the-art care in cardiac, oncologic, orthopedic, bariatric, pain management, mental health and emergency services.  In addition to its extensive outpatient specialty centers, South Nassau provides emergency and elective angioplasty, and is the only hospital on Long Island with the Novalis Tx™ and Gamma Knife® radiosurgery technologies.  South Nassau is a designated Stroke Center by the New York State Department of Health and Comprehensive Community Cancer Center by the American College of Surgeons and is an accredited center of the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Association and Quality Improvement Program.  In addition, the hospital has been awarded the Joint Commission’s gold seal of approval as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures, including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care; and disease-specific care for hip and knee replacement, wound care, heart failure and end-stage renal disease. For more information, visit www.southnassau.org.