VA Long Beach Earns Top Performer

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VA Long Beach Earns ‘Top Performer on Key Quality Measures™’
Recognition from The Joint Commission

LONG BEACH, Calif., October 2012 – VA Long Beach was 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. To obtain this designation,
Each of the hospitals that were named as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures met two 95 percent (95/95) performance thresholds on 2011 accountability measure data.
First, each hospital achieved performance of 95 percent or above on a single, composite score that includes all the accountability measures for which it reports data to The Joint Commission, including measures that had fewer than 30
eligible cases or patients. Second, each hospital met or exceeded 95 percent performance on every accountability measure
for which it reports data to The Joint Commission, excluding any measures with fewer than 30 eligible cases or patients.
A 95 percent score means a hospital provided an evidence-based practice 95 times out of 100 opportunities to provide the practice. Each accountability measure represents an evidence-based practice – for example, giving aspirin at arrival for heart attack patients and giving antibiotics one hour before surgery

While all 152 VA hospitals are accredited by The Joint Commision, VA Long Beach is one of nineteen VA Facilities
across the Nation to be recognized for earning the “Top Performer on Quality Measures”. VA Long Beach was recognized
specifically for its work in the following measure sets: Heart Attack, Heart Failure, Pneumonia and Surgical Care.
The list of Top Performers increased by 50 percent from its debut last year and represents 18 percent of accredited hospitals reporting data.