Quality Reports
Hospital Compare-Core Measures
The Hospital Quality Improvement Demonstration (HQID) project, sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), is a national initiative aimed at improving the care provided to hospitalized patients with heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgery and hip & knee replacement. The quality measures have extensive validation through research and work by the Joint Commission, Quality Improvement Organizations, the Agency for Healthcare Research and the National Quality Forum. The 230 hospitals participating in the project raised their overall quality by an average of 18.3% over five years based on their delivery of more than 30 nationally standardized and widely accepted care measures. Participation in the project is voluntary and results are published on the CMS Hospital Compare website.
| Quality Measures | Results from 10-08 to 9-09 | |
| SRMC | HQID Average | |
| Heart Attack | 91.6% | 98.1% |
| Heart Failure | 96.1% | 95.4% |
| Pneumonia | 97.9% | 95.2% |
| Surgical Care Improvement/ Surgical Infection Prevention |
98.6% | 96.7% |
| Hip & Knee | 99.7% | 98.0% |
