Results/Outcomes of Quality and Patient Safety at Alexian Brothers Health SystemÂ
Core Measures
Core measure performance is used to measure the quality of care provided by the hospital and its physicians for patients with a specific diagnosis such as heart failure, pneumonia or acute myocardial infarction, also called heart attack.
The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) is an initiative intended to provide a standardized survey instrument and data collection methodology for measuring patients' perspectives on hospital care.
Leapfrog aims to provide consumers and purchasers of healthcare, such as employers, with information they need to make informed health care choices by getting information from hospitals on four core quality and safety practices.
The National Quality Forum is a not-for-profit organization created to develop and implement a national strategy for health care quality measurement and reporting. The National Quality Forum makes recommendations for improving health care quality by promoting 30 practices to reduce the risk of harm to patients.
