When choosing healthcare, quality is the most important factor to consider. Finding quality healthcare involves more than just choosing a physician or hospital from an insurance list or the yellow pages. Since the medical care you choose will have a direct impact on your outcome, it is important to compare quality scores before seeking treatment.
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How do you know you’re getting quality care? The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has made it easy to compare hospital quality delivered to Medicare patients on its new website, called “Hospital Compare.”
Located at www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov, the site was launched in 2005 to provide consumers with an easy way to gauge a hospital’s efforts to improve care.
The latest results show that Cape Fear Valley is on the right track. In fact, we are scoring above state
and/or national averages on 17 out of 18 indicators. Patients without internet access can call 1-800-MEDICARE for the latest results. |
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The Hospital Quality Incentive is a six-year demonstration project of Medicare, in partnership with Premier Inc. It is designed to incentivize hospitals to improve quality. Cape Fear Valley is one of approximately
270 hospitals nationwide that volunteered to participate in the project.
You can get additional information about our scores at www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov.
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January 2009
latest available data
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Cape Fear Valley is participating in the national Surgical
Care Improvement Project (SCIP) to improve the surgical care
patients receive and reduce preventable surgical deaths by
complying with three steps: choosing the correct antibiotic to
help prevent surgical infection; giving patients the
antibiotic within one hour prior to surgical incision; and
discontinuing the antibiotic within 24 – 48 hours after
surgery, depending on the surgery. The graphs below show Cape
Fear Valley's overall compliance.
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January 2009 latest available data
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The North Carolina Hospital Quality Performance Report is a joint
initiative of the North Carolina Hospital Association (NCHA) and NC Center for Hospital Quality and
Patient Safety, in an effort to voluntarily collect and report
quality performance information. The effort is consistent with a
similar reporting initiative run by the national Hospital
Quality Alliance (HQA). You can learn more about our performance
scores at http://www.nchospitalquality.org/.
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April - September 2008 data |
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In March 2008, The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released its first national patient satisfaction scorecard, called the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS). The goals of the survey are to provide consumers with hospital data they can understand and compare, incentivize hospitals to improve quality of care, and increase the transparency of hospital care quality. Consumers can visit www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov and compare up to three hospitals to each other, to the state, or national
averages.
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Juy 2007 - June 2008 data |
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| Cape Fear Valley's drive for improved patient care continues in 2009 with its participation in QUEST, a new pilot program launched by Premier and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). QUEST is a voluntary, three-year project involving just 166 U.S. hospitals with the goal of setting distinct, but aggressive, performance targets and then allowing the hospitals to share best practices to reach quality improvement goals. Target goals include saving lives, safely reducing cost of care, delivering the most reliable and effective care, improving patient safety over two years, and increasing patient satisfaction over two years. Cape Fear Valley has chosen to focus on three areas: evidence-based care, cost-of-care efficiency and patient mortality. |
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February 2009 latest available data |
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Cape Fear Valley is fully accredited by The Joint Commission, the premiere
healthcare-accrediting body in the world. It evaluates nearly
16,000 healthcare organizations throughout the United States,
including more than 8,500 U.S. hospitals and home care
providers. To learn more about Cape Fear Valley's accreditation by the
Joint Commission, click here.
