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The
American Hospital Association
offers this Website to its
member hospitals as a tool
for reviewing hospital quality
data reported to the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) and publicly
posted on CMS' Hospital
Compare Website. All the
information posted on this
website is adapted from
data files received from
the CMS Hospital Compare
Website. To see how King's
Daughters Medical Center
compares click here
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Core
Measures
Core
Measures are a collection of patient
care measures which have been scientifically
proven to improve clinical outcomes
for patients. The CMS (Centers
for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
established the Core Measures in
2000 and began publicly reporting
hospital information relating to
the Core Measures in 2003. Hospitals
voluntarily submit data from medical
records about the treatments their
patients receive for heart failure,
pneumonia, surgery, and heart attacks.
The data includes care received
by patients with Medicare, those
enrolled in Medicare health plans,
and those who do not have Medicare.
Currently, KDMC reports on 30 inpatient
core measures and 4 outpatient core
measures. Beginning in January 2012,
we will be reporting on 44 measures.
After
years of research and testing in
hospitals across the United States,
Core Measures have been proven to
reduce the risk of complications
for patients who undergo surgical
procedures and prevent recurrences
of illnesses such as pneumonia and
heart failure. The monitoring
of a hospital's core measures assist
hospitals in evaluating how well
these evidence-based standards and
guidelines are used during the delivery
of patient care. Core measure
evaluations also assist hospitals
to focus efforts on improving the
quality of the health care they
provide.
King's
Daughters Medical Center knows you
have choices when deciding which
hospital is best for you.
Core measure scores provide relevant
information about the patient care
we give so you can make an informed
decision. The scores are the
end result of converting medical
information from patient records
into a rate or percentage that you,
the consumer can review at www.kdmc.org
or http://hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/.
The Hospital Compare website also
displays scores of other hospitals
which can help you, your family
and friends to compare KDMC to other
hospitals in this local area, throughout
the state of Mississippi and the
United States. You will notice
as you review the scores, a time
lag of several months between the
time a hospital reports data and
when this same data is posted to
the Hospital Compare website.
KDMC, like other hospitals, has
to wait until all the state and
national hospital statistics are
compiled, to update any core measure
information posted on its website.
Among
3,700 Hospitals
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TOP
10% IN THE NATION
FOR PATIENT EXPERIENCE
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Analysis
of HealthCare Data
by HealthGrades
(The Leading Independent Healthcare
Ratings Organization)
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