Collaboration of clinical teams leads to top performance on quality of care measures by Ochsner Medical Center – North Shore
Courtesy Ochsner North Shore, Northshore LIVING WELL Magazine
Did you know that Slidell is home to one of the top performing hospitals in the country? Ochsner Medical Center – North Shore was recently named one of the nation’s top performers on key quality measures by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in America. Ochsner-North Shore was one of only 405 U.S. hospitals recognized based on data reported about evidence-based clinical processes that are shown to improve care for certain conditions, including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care and children’s asthma.
Reaching this level of excellence required daily coordination and teamwork between Ochsner’s physicians, nurses, respiratory therapists and the entire clinical team. It’s a well-organized collaboration and commitment to accreditation and positive patient outcomes by day and night clinical teams to follow and excel at the quality measures identified for excellence in continued patient care―regardless of a team member’s shift time, title or job description. This ongoing commitment, in turn, has led to lower patient re-admission rates.
It’s essential that organizations like The Joint Commission make this objective performance data available to the public in order for patients and their families to feel comfortable in their healthcare decisions. A copy of The Joint Commission’s “Improving America’s Hospitals” annual report can be found at: www.jointcommission.org/annualreport.aspx.
Ochsner Medical Center – North Shore in Slidell is a full-service, 165-bed hospital offering 24-hour emergency services, labor and delivery, a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), state of the art cardiac catheterization lab, medical- surgical services and cancer therapy. Ochsner Medical Center – North Shore’s Physical Medicine and Stroke Center offers advanced rehabilitation, including the state’s only Lokomat which uses robotic technology designed to help semi-paralyzed patients and stroke victims learn to walk again.
Ochsner North Shore is part of southeast Louisiana’s largest non-profit, academic, multi-specialty, healthcare delivery system – Ochsner Health System. Ochsner Health System is over 850 physicians strong with experts in more than 90 specialties. Ochsner honors most major insurance providers.
For more information on Ochsner, visit www.ochsner.org.
