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Quality Report

The following charts provide a snapshot of Holland Hospital’s performance on key Quality measures. For a comprehensive view, please see the “Seven Key Elements of Quality Health Care.”

2007 Core Measures Scorecard

Print Version (PDF, 908 KB) PDF

Q. How can a healthcare consumer know
if a hospital uses proven best practices for
treating high-risk medical conditions?

A. The federal government collects these
National Hospital Quality Measures, or Core
Measures
, for every hospital in the country
and makes them available to the public at
hospitalcompare.hhs.gov.

Q. How does Holland Hospital compare?

A. Recent results place Holland Hospital in
the top 10 percent of hospitals for meeting
Core Measure criteria for each specific
condition. Furthermore, when measuring
aggregate performance for all Core
Measures in all conditions, Holland Hospital
outperforms 97 percent of all hospitals in
the country.

Listed here are a few examples of
Core Measures and Holland Hospital’s
performance in comparison to other
hospitals. To view all charts, visit
hollandhospital.org and click on How
We Define Quality > Performance Charts.

 

 

 

PCI Median Treatment Time
For treatment of heart attack. Times are from arrival in the
Emergency Department to restoration of blood flow in
coronary arteries; lower times are better. (2007 data) †79% of PCI patients had blood flow restored in less than 90 minutes,
surpassing the American College of Cardiology goal of 75%.

Heart Attack
Core Measure: Heart attack patients given beta blocker
at arrival to relieve stress on the heart.*

Heart Failure
Core Measure: Heart failure patients given ACE inhibitor
or ARB medicines for left ventricular systolic dysfunction
to reduce risk of death from heart attack.*

Pneumonia
Core Measure: Pneumonia patients assessed and given
pneumococcal vaccination to lower the risk of complications
of pneumonia caused by bacteria.*

Surgical Infection Prevention
Core Measure: Surgery patients who received preventative
antibiotics one hour before incision to reduce risk of infection.* *Data is for the reporting period Jan.-Dec. 2006. Source: Hospital Compare,
US Department of Health & Human Services. See complete Core Measures
ratings at hospitalcompare.hhs.gov.


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