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COMMITMENT TO QUALITY

Quality patient care and rigorous attention to patient safety are hallmarks of Lee Memorial Health System (LMHS).

LMHS Quality goes beyond Reported Standards to Change Lives

Our commitment to quality led LMHS to become one of the earliest members of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). This leading quality improvement organization is identifying best practices based on measurable outcomes to ensure that the right treatment is given to the right patient every time. The focus has been on inpatient safety improvements.

Through IHI, the 100,00 Lives Campaign was created and successfully implemented to document the lives that have been saved by using evidence-based methods and procedures of care. New techniques have been applied to situations including rapid emergency response teams, protecting patients from developing pneumonia when using a ventilator to help them breathe, and protecting surgical sites and central intravenous lines from infection. LMHS not only adopted these life-saving quality care methods, but also continues to serve as a Mentor Hospital sharing our success with others nationally.

The latest IHI campaign is to protect 5 million lives by preventing potentially harmful medical incidents over the next two years, through continued use of best practices for patient care. LMHS is also participating in the IHI collaborative "Transforming Medical Surgical Care at the Bedside" along with more than 25 other hospitals across the country. The redesign of medical surgical care is now a standard for three (3) units at Lee Memorial Hospital and early outcomes are very positive. This IHI quality work is the cutting edge, state-of-the-art effort for healthcare. To learn more about IHI, click: www.ihi.org

 LMHS Quality is Recognized Nationally through Numerous Awards

Each of our five hospitals has achieved Solucient's 100 Top Hospitals ranking overall and for various categories of high quality clinical care including Heart and Vascular, Orthopedics, Stroke and Intensive Care. We have also been ranked among the top hospitals for our culture of performance improvement.  These rankings are based on reported measures compared against other hospital peers nationally. This is an extraordinary accomplishment, considering that there are nearly 5,000 hospitals nationally. Please click here to view the numerous awards that LMHS has received.  

LMHS rankings on Quality Standards

Because we believe that people can make better decisions about their health care if they have accurate information, we have made a commitment to reporting publicly how Lee Memorial Health System ranks on a range of quality standards and benchmarks.

In this section of the Lee Memorial Health System web site, we provide accurate, up-to-date, comprehensive data on our performance in key areas and, when possible, comparisons to other medical centers, nationally, statewide and locally.

Current quality improvement initiatives at Lee Memorial Health System include:

Participation in the National Hospital Quality Alliance: Learn about treatments that are known to get the best results for adult patients with heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia.

Participation with the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (TJC) National Patient Safety Goals: Learn about these Patient Safety Goals, and how they have been adopted to improve hospital patient safety.

Participation with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs): Learn about safety measures that help hospitals identify accidents, complications or other medical mishaps before they occur.

This web site contains information on the most commonly reported quality measures. We suggest that you use this information when speaking with your doctor or other qualified health care provider to help you, your family and your friends make an informed health care decision for your specific circumstances.

We are committed to continually improving the quality of health care that we provide to our patients.  

Thank you for your interest in Lee Memorial Health System.

Please note: These Lee Memorial Health System Quality web pages currently include public use data for Cape Coral Hospital, Gulf Coast Hospital, Lee Memorial Hospital, HealthPark Medical Center and Southwest FL Regional Medical Center through the June 2007 reporting period.

 

 

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