Catholic Medical Center is committed to continuously improving the quality of care provided in all patient care settings. Good information helps health care consumers make good decisions about their health.

Hospitals and doctors are not all alike. They vary in quality due to differences in their training, experience and services. Differences in quality matter more when you need sophisticated medical care for a complex condition. The doctor and hospital you choose will have a direct impact on how well you do – especially when you need treatment for a serious condition or disease.

 

 

 

The third annual Harvard Pilgrim Honor Roll recently recognized CMC among 46 hospitals in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island whose performance was among the top 25% of those measured nationally on a set of composite quality, safety and patient experience measures.  The measure set includes the 4 Hospital Quality Alliance clinical measure sets (AMI, HF, Pneumonia and Surgical Care Improvement), HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) surgery results, and 4 important Leapfrog patient safety measures (Prevent Medication Errors, Appropriate ICU staffing, Steps toe Avoid Harm and Reduce In-Hospital Injury).  For more information on the Honor Roll, click here.

 

Catholic Medical Center Quality of Care Rated Among the Best in the Nation.   The Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) is a public-private collaboration aimed at improving the quality of care provided by the nation's hospitals by measuring and publicly reporting on that care.  According to the HQA, between October 2008 and September 2009, Catholic Medical Center outperformed the national average for 24 hospital quality measures related to heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care. For heart attacks, CMC’s performance placed it in the top 10% of hospitals in the nation in four of six measures. For pneumonia, CMC placed in the top 10% of hospitals in three out of six measures. For more information, click here

 

We encourage you to learn more about our quality programs. For more information, please call Catholic Medical Center Performance Improvement Department at 603-663-6509.