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Simi Valley Hospital Foundation
President Michelle Foster accepted
a Simi Valley City Council
commendation for the hospital’s
Top Performer recognition from
Simi Valley Mayor Bob Huber during
the December 1 council meeting.
Quality time
SIMI VALLEY HOSPITAL’S QUALITY RESULTS ARE
RECOGNIZED BY TOP NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
OVER THE
past several years during Simi Valley Hospital’s transformation from a
small, community hospital to a top-choice medical facility, the driving force behind
the change has been an unrelenting commitment to quality.
While “quality” is a concept that is often hard to pin down, the health care
industry has tested and studied medical practice and, from what has been learned,
has developed criteria, benchmarks and evaluation processes to identify quality work.
Simi Valley Hospital participates in a large number of quality initiatives. As a
result, we have incorporated practices throughout the
hospital that ensure the best possible experience
and outcomes for our patients—and those efforts
have been rewarded.
Head of the class
Late last year, for example, Simi Valley
Hospital learned we have been recognized by
The Joint Commission as a Top Performer on
Key Quality Measures® for achieving
excellence in performance for AMI (acute
myocardial infarction, or heart attack)
and pneumonia care during 2013. The
Joint Commission is the nation’s leading
independent, non-profit accrediting
organization for the health care industry.
It accredits and certifies more than
20,500 health care organizations and
programs in the United States.
“This recognition shows that Simi Valley
Hospital is doing very well in achieving
best practices for our patients who have
community-acquired pneumonia and
AMI,” said Kathleen Percival, director of
Organizational Performance Improvement at
Simi Valley Hospital. “Best practices include
such things as giving the proper medications
to patients while they’re here in the hospital, discharging them with the right medi-
cations, appropriately utilizing antibiotics and so forth.”
Quality in abundance
Other quality-related designations for Simi Valley Hospital include:
•
Full three-year accreditation for Simi Valley Hospital and our Home Care Services
from The Joint Commission.
•
HomeCare Elite Award for Simi Valley Hospital’s Home Care Services from
Outcome Concept Systems, Inc., the nation’s
leading provider of home care information.
•
Certification from The Joint Commission as
a Primary Stroke Center.
•
Full three-year accredita-
tion from the College of
American Pathologists
for the hospital’s
Clinical Laboratory.
•
Full three-year
accreditation from the American College of Radiology for
the hospital’s Nuclear Medicine Department.
•
Breast Imaging Center of Excellence designa-
tion by the American College of Radiology
for the Nancy Reagan Breast Center.
(Simi Valley Hospital is one of only
two facilities in Ventura County with
this designation.)
•
Double-gold score from the
National Safety Foundation for Simi
Valley Hospital’s Food and Nutrition
Services Department.
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