Organisational excellence results at award winning community hospital

The Joint Commission Overall Priority Focus Process (PFP) evaluated organizations' performance in fourteen areas including assessment/care services, patient safety and quality improvement activities to calculate total PFP points. Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital (GSAM), a US community hospital, outperformed national and state hospitals as well as performing better than American Nurses Credentialing Centre (Magnet) hospitals. With the lower figure being better, GSAM scored 52, Magnet hospitals 13...

BPIR Categories

15.1.1 Strategy success measures & performance indexes
15.2.4 Service performance e.g. quality/delivery/value