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Medical Center was selected for the 2005 Solucient 100 Top
Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders award by the
Evanston, Ill.-based company — the nation's leading source
of health care information products.
The Solucient 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders
Award is unique and represents a very significant achievement
by a hospital, according to Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president,
Performance Improvement & 100 Top Programs, Center for Healthcare
Improvement at Solucient.
“Monmouth Medical Center and its team were recognized for
being one of 100 hospitals nationwide making the greatest progress
in improving hospital-wide performance over five years,” Chenoweth
says. “Monmouth Medical Center is among those organizations
that have set national benchmarks for consistent improvement
in clinical outcomes, patient safety, hospital efficiency, financial
stability and growth. Monmouth Medical Center is the only hospital
in Monmouth and Ocean counties to earn this award and to have
instilled a true culture of performance improvement.”
She notes that the recipients are leaders who have brought increasing
value to the community year after year.
“This award is an affirmation of our team effort to create
a health care environment for the community that provides the
best in quality patient care, patient safety and hospital efficacy,
on a national level, says Frank J. Vozos, M.D., FACS, executive
director of Monmouth Medical Center who took on the leadership
role at the hospital in 1998. “The management team, executives
and staff who contributed to this recognition are true leaders
who have affected and maintained a positive culture of change
at Monmouth Medical Center. We could not have earned this award
without their continued commitment to health care excellence.”
As one of New Jersey’s largest academic medical centers
and a regional medical campus for Philadelphia’s Drexel
University College of Medicine, Monmouth Medical Center has long
had notable advantages over many institutions in providing and
demonstrating quality. In addition to this recognition, Monmouth
ranks in the top 5 percent of hospitals nationwide for overall
quality clinical performance by HealthGrades. It was named Distinguished
Academic Center among an elite group of the nation’s nine
leading teaching hospitals by Press, Ganey and ranks, “Best
in Class” for physician satisfaction on a national and
state level.
Monmouth’s cutting-edge technologies, procedures and treatments
are evident in its Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, where
MMC’s role as the first in the region to perform laparoscopic
surgery has resulted in the area’s most advanced and comprehensive
center, including minimally invasive neurosurgery, cardiovascular,
thoracic and bariatric surgery, among many surgical firsts.
"Five years of steady, well-aligned improvement means that these
100 Performance Improvement (PI) Leaders have enormously increased
the value they provide to their communities," said Jean Chenoweth.
The study found that PI Leaders made significant gains in a
host of areas between 1999 and 2004, including increased patient
safety and outcomes, shorter lengths of stay and increased patient
volume.
Solucient’s 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement
Leaders Study analyzed acute care hospitals nationwide using
detailed empirical performance data from years 1999 through 2004,
including publicly available Medicare MedPAR data, Medicare cost
reports, and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
outpatient data. The study looked at all U.S. hospitals licensed
to treat Medicare patients. Nine performance measures were examined
at each hospital: risk-adjusted mortality and complications,
average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt
ratio, growth in patient volume, tangible assets and risk-adjusted
patient safety index. The study used publicly available Medicare
cost reports, MedPAR data and CMS outpatient data from 1999 to
2004.
For more information on this study and other 100 Top Hospitals
research, please visit www.100tophospitals.com.
Monmouth Medical Center is one of New Jersey's largest academic
community medical centers, where physicians work as a team dedicated
to comprehensive and compassionate patient care, clinical competence
and academic excellence. Monmouth has nearly 800 members on its
medical and dental staff re trained in primary care medicine
and surgery in more than 60 subspecialties. In addition to the
nearly 20,000 adult and pediatric inpatients and nearly 13,000
surgeries performed annually, Monmouth Medical handles 150,000
patient visits through its many outpatient departments and ambulatory
services. For emergency care, Monmouth boasts an Emergency Department
led by a team of board-certified emergency medicine physicians
that is consistently ranked among the top 10 ERs in the state
and among the top 10 percent in the nation for patient satisfaction.
Monmouth’s Emergency Department offers comprehensive care
to the acutely and chronically ill.
For more than 100 years, Monmouth Medical Center has been the
leader in central New Jersey in providing the best in health
care and the latest in medical technology to the nearly 1 million
residents that comprise its primary service area of Monmouth
County, and portions of Ocean and Middlesex counties.
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