Carolinas Medical Center: demonstrating high quality in the public sector
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Case study. High-performing health care organization
- Contributor(s):
- Edwards, Jennifer. Commonwealth Fund.
- Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Commonwealth Fund, [2010]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Hospital Administration Hospitals, Public Organizational Case Studies Quality Assurance, Health Care -- organization & administration Quality Indicators, Health Care Electronic Health Records Medication Therapy Management Nurse's Role Organizational Culture Physician's Role Public Sector Safety Vaccination Humans North Carolina California United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Vital Signs. Location: Charlotte, N.C. Type: Public teaching hospital. Beds: 130 beds. Distinction: Carolinas Medical Center-University, a public hospital, ranks in the top 3 percent of U.S. hospitals on a composite of 23 process-of-care quality measures. More than 2,000 public and private hospitals were eligible for the analysis. Other hospitals in the Carolinas HealthCare System, Carolinas Medical Center-Mercy/Carolinas Medical Center-Pineville, and Carolinas Medical Center (the flagship hospital), ranked in the top 10 percent in the same time period. In the year following the data analysis for this study, a new hospital joined the system, Carolinas Medical Center-NorthEast, whose scores also place it in the top 10 percent of hospitals nationally. Timeframe: April 2007 through March 2008. See Appendix for full methodology.
- 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:
- 101547665 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101547665