Newswise — Los Angeles – Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) announced today that it has been recognized as a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® for 2015 (based on 2014 data) for its childhood asthma care by the Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States. CHLA is one of only 1,043 hospitals out of more than 3,300 eligible hospitals in the United States to achieve the Top Performer distinction.
This distinction was part of The Joint Commission’s 2015 annual report “America’s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety,” for attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability measure performance for children treated for asthma. The Joint Commission’s review of pediatric medical facilities focuses on success in providing families with at-home care management plans for childhood asthma while review of adult hospitals includes broader treatment categories such as heart failure, heart attack, surgical care and pneumonia, among others.
“We are honored to be named a Top Performer on Key Quality Measures® as it recognizes the knowledge, teamwork and dedication of our hospital staff,” says Paul Viviano, president and chief executive officer of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. “CHLA continues to champion and implement the best possible patient outcomes through evidence-based care in all service lines. This includes providing clear guidance for families so that at-home care, where possible, can play a role in preventing unnecessary hospital care.”
Asthma care is delivered through the multidisciplinary efforts of CHLA’s divisions of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, led by Joseph Church, MD; Hospital Medicine, led by Michael Bryant, MD; and Pediatric Pulmonology, led by Sally Ward, MD. Collectively, the divisions combine innovative, treatment, research, education and outreach in the care of children with severe asthma. CHLA physicians work closely with each child's family to ensure that asthma home care is provided as part of the discharge process. The Joint Commission created the Top Performer Program to provide incentives and recognition to accredited hospitals that demonstrate the ability to achieve and sustain excellence in accountability measure performance. The Top Performer Program recognizes hospitals for improving performance on evidence-based interventions that increase the chances of healthy outcomes for patients with certain conditions. To be named a Top Performer, CHLA had to meet three performance criteria based on 2014 accountability measure data, including:• Achieve cumulative performance of 95 percent or above across all reported accountability measures; • Achieve performance of 95 percent or above on each and every reported accountability measure with at least 30 denominator cases; and• Have at least one core measure set that had a composite rate of 95 percent or above, and within that measure set, achieve a performance rate of 95 percent or above on all applicable individual accountability measures.“Delivering the right treatment in the right way at the right time is a cornerstone of high-quality health care. I commend the efforts of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles for their excellent performance on the use of evidence-based interventions,” said Mark R. Chassin, MD, FACP, MPP, MPH, president and CEO, The Joint Commission.For more information about the Top Performer program, visit http://www.jointcommission.org/accreditation/top_performers.aspx.
About Children’s Hospital Los AngelesChildren's Hospital Los Angeles has been named the best children’s hospital in California and among the top 10 in the nation for clinical excellence with its selection to the prestigious U.S. News & World Report Honor Roll. Children’s Hospital is home to The Saban Research Institute, one of the largest and most productive pediatric research facilities in the United States. Children’s Hospital is also one of America's premier teaching hospitals through its affiliation since 1932 with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.For more information, visit CHLA.org. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, or visit our blog at http://www.CHLA.org/Blog.
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