Frankfort Regional Medical Center was recognized by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of healthcare organizations in America, as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® for achieving excellence in performance on its accountability measures during 2012. This is the third year that Frankfort Regional Medical Center has been recognized by The Joint Commission for exemplary performance in using evidence-based clinical processes that are shown to improve care for certain conditions.
The clinical processes focus on care for heart attack, pneumonia, surgery, children's asthma, stroke, and venous thromboembolism, as well as inpatient psychiatric services. New this year is a category for immunization for pneumonia and influenza. Frankfort Regional Medical Center was recognized for its achievements in 2012 for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, and surgical care. The hospital earned the distinction of Top Performer on Key Quality Measures for attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability measure performance and achieving a cumulative performance of 95 percent or above across all reported accountability measures. Only two other hospitals in Lexington - eight total in Kentucky, received recognition for the same measure sets. Each accountability measure represents an evidence-based practice – examples include giving aspirin at arrival for heart attack patients and giving antibiotics one hour before surgery.
"Frankfort Regional Medical Center prides ourselves on providing high quality patient care," stated Chip Peal, Chief Executive Officer. "We are diligent about implementing processes to keep our patients safe and are honored to be recognized by the Joint Commission as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures for our work. Frankfort Regional Medical Center will continue to prevail as an example of high quality patient care and advanced medical services in our community."
In addition to being included in The Joint Commission’s “Improving America’s Hospitals” annual report, Frankfort Regional Medical Center will be recognized on The Joint Commission’s Quality Check website (www.qualitycheck.org). The Top Performer program will be featured in the December issues of The Joint Commission Perspectives and The Source.