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A Common Standard Of Excellence
Welcome to BayCare's Online Quality Report Card, where we provide
you with accurate and honest information on the performance of
our leading not-for-profit hospitals and how
we compare with hospitals around the country and the state. This area of our Web
site also provides you with useful information to help you get more
involved in your health care decisions.
Quality
Of Care
Click below
to find information on how well BayCare's hospitals care for patients with
certain medical conditions or surgical procedures, as reported by the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services on its Hospital Compare Web site.
Heart Attack - Provides information on 8 process of care measures that
tell you how many patients at our hospitals get treatments known to be effective
for most adults who have had a heart attack.
Heart Failure - Provides information on 4 process of care measures that tell
you how many patients at our hospitals get treatments known to help most adults
with heart failure do better and keep from getting worse.
Pneumonia
- Provides information on 7 process of care measures that tell you how many
patients at our hospitals get treatments known to be effective for most adults
with pneumonia.
Surgical Care Improvement/Surgical Infection Prevention -
Provides information on 5 process of care measures that tell you how many
patients at our hospitals get treatments recommended for most adult surgical
patients.
Hospital Outcome of Care Measures - Provides information on
3 measures that are designed to reflect the results of care, rather than how frequently
a specific treatment or intervention was performed.
For more information on these
measures, please visit the Hospital Compare Web site. Also, talk to your doctor
about this information to help you, your family and your friends make your best
hospital care decisions.
We have made an effort to simplify
the same quality measures that the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services recommends and reports for hospitals nationwide and make it easier to access
information specifically about our hospitals. We also modified the
data in the following ways:
- Provided
raw scores in each measurement area for quick comparison with national and state
data.
- Adopted a statistical formula
and color coding for easy benchmarking.
- Any score that is
statistically higher than the national average receives a "Green"
designation. In those indicators where we performed equal to or higher than
the Top 10 percent of hospitals in the nation, we also provide a checkmark
in the box.
- Any score that is
statistically lower than the national average receives a "Red"
designation.
- Incorporated links to
consumer-friendly health information to help users interpret medical terms and
evaluate specific measurements.
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