NEW ORLEANS – The Joint Commission (TJC) recognized Tulane Health System Tuesday as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® for 2015 (using 2014 data).
“The Joint Commission’s Top Performers recognition uses objective data to determine facilities that consistently achieve high performance levels on key quality measures,” said Dr. William Lunn, Tulane Health System’s chief executive officer. “Only 31% of all TJC accredited hospitals received this honor. We appreciate our entire medical team, whose dedication to evidence-based clinical practices helps ensure the best possible outcomes for the patients we’re privileged to treat.”
TJC’s Top Performers program recognizes hospitals that attain excellence on accountability measures related to evidence-based care for certain conditions, including heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, children’s asthma, inpatient psychiatric services, stroke, venous thromboembolism, immunization and perinatal care.
Tulane Health System is an acclaimed teaching, research and medical system serving the greater New Orleans area. Tulane has more than 500 credentialed physicians who provide leading-edge care, ranging from primary to tertiary to quaternary. Facilities in the New Orleans area include Tulane Medical Center, Tulane Lakeside Hospital for Women and Children, Tulane Pediatrics, Tulane Cancer Center Comprehensive Clinic, Tulane Transplant Institute, Tulane Multispecialty Center Metairie, Tulane Multispecialty Center Uptown, Tulane Multispecialty Center Downtown and the Tulane Institute of Sports Medicine.
Tulane Health System is a partnership jointly owned by HCA and Tulane University.
