NorthShore Regional Medical Center has released its first Quality Report, which highlights progress the hospital is making on various initiatives, programs and processes put in place to improve quality of care and patient safety.

The quality report, which will be issued periodically, collects in one place the results of all of the hospital’s major quality improvement efforts. These include NorthShore Regional Medical Center’s scores on the Hospital Quality Alliance’s Hospital Compare Core Measures initiative, which is co-sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the hospital’s participation in such national initiatives as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 100,000 Lives and 5 Million Lives campaigns and the American Heart Association’s Get With The GuidelinesSM program. The hospital achieved an aggregate score of 95.2 percent in the core quality measures reported by the federal government, well above the national average of 86.7 percent.

“One of our key objectives at NorthShore Regional Medical Center is to make sure we consistently work to provide the safest and most effective care possible for every patient who seeks treatment at our hospital,” said Alan R. Cason, the hospital’s chief executive officer. “To achieve this goal, we have made a sincere and dedicated commitment – in collaboration with our medical staff – to take an ongoing critical look at our practices and our approaches to care. Our Quality Report is intended to provide everyone who works at NorthShore Regional Medical Center – as well as everyone who lives in our community – tangible evidence of the progress we are making toward accomplishing our quality improvement goals.”

In particular, Cason noted the section in the Quality Report that highlights NorthShore Regional Medical Center’s scores for compliance with the Hospital Compare core measures for treatment of heart failure, heart attack and pneumonia. The report shows NorthShore Regional Medical Center was at or above the national averages in all of the categories for which results were available.

“I’m pleased that these outstanding results provide independent, third-party support of our accomplishments in this critical area,” Cason said. “They are an affirmation of the hard work our employees and physicians perform every day as our hospital strives to provide a safe and effective patient environment, as well as a reflection of their dedication to the goals of our comprehensive quality initiatives. We recognize that improving quality of care and patient safety is a continuous process that requires ongoing vigilance and commitment.”

Copies of the NorthShore Regional Medical Center Quality Report can obtained by calling Laura Hanzo, Marketing Coordinator, at 985.646.5969.