Kettering and Sycamore Medical Centers: committing resources to surgical quality
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Case study. High-performing health care organization
- Contributor(s):
- Edwards, Jennifer N. Lashbrook, Aimee. Commonwealth Fund.
- Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Commonwealth Fund, [2009]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Hospital Administration Hospitals, Teaching Hospitals, Voluntary Organizational Case Studies Postoperative Complications -- prevention & control Quality Assurance, Health Care -- organization & administration Quality Indicators, Health Care Surgical Procedures, Operative Anti-Bacterial Agents -- therapeutic use Blood Glucose Body Temperature Infection control Intraoperative Care Perioperative Care Postoperative Care Preoperative Care Humans Ohio United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Vital Signs. Location: Kettering and Miamisburg, Ohio. Type: Private, not-for-profit teaching hospitals. Beds: Kettering Medical Center--481; Sycamore Medical Center--181. Distinction: Both hospitals, part of the Kettering Health Network, scored in the top 3 percent in composite of five surgical care improvement process-of-care measures among more than 2,300 hospitals (more than half of U.S. acute-care hospitals) eligible for the analysis. Timeframe: April 2007 through March 2008. See Appendix for full methodology. This case study describes the strategies and factors that appear to contribute to high performance on surgical care improvement measures at Kettering and Sycamore Medical Centers. It is based on information obtained from interviews with key hospital personnel and materials provided by the Kettering Health Network during April and May 2009.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101547426 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101547426