The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) has recognized 52 of 517 hospitals participating in the adult program for achieving meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care in 2014. ACS NSQIP participating hospitals are required to track the outcomes of inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures and then analyze their results. These results will direct patient safety initiatives within the hospital and impact the quality of surgical care.
The ACS NSQIP recognition program commends a select group of hospitals for achieving a meritorious composite score. That composite score was determined through a weighted formula combining eight outcomes. The outcome performances related to patient management were in the following eight clinical areas:
- Mortality
- Cardiac: cardiac arrest and myocardial infarction
- Pneumonia
- Unplanned Intubation
- Ventilator > 48 hours
- Renal Failure
- SSI: superficial incisional SSI, deep incisional SSI, and organ/space SSI
- UTI: urinary tract infection
The 52 hospitals commended achieved the distinction based on their outstanding composite quality score. Risk-adjusted data from the July 2015 ACS NSQIP Semiannual Report, which presents data from the 2014 calendar year, were used to determine which hospitals demonstrated meritorious outcomes. The 52 meritorious hospitals represented approximately 10 percent of the hospitals evaluated in the Semiannual Report. A poster was also developed to provide featured hospitals with a tool to display their achievements internally at their institutions.
- Advocate Christ Medical Center Oak Lawn, IL
- Advocate Good Shepherd Barrington, IL
- Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center Chicago, IL
- Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Park Ridge, IL
- Alta Bates Summit Medical Center Oakland, CA
- Baptist Hospital of Miami Miami, FL
- Bassett Medical Center Cooperstown, NY
- Bon Secours St. Francis Hospital Charleston, SC
- Christiana Care Health System Newark, DE
- Cookeville Regional Medical Center Cookeville, TN
- Dignity Health Sequoia Hospital Redwood City, CA
- Eisenhower Army Medical Center Fort Gordon, GA
- Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center Knoxville, TN
- Franklin Square Hospital Center Baltimore, MD
- Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital Milwaukee, WI
- Hackensack University Medical Center Hackensack, NJ
- Homestead Hospital Homestead, FL
- Johns Hopkins Hospital Baltimore, MD
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital Santa Rosa Santa Rosa, CA
- Kaiser Permanente Fremont Fremont, CA
- Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center San Jose, CA
- Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center Santa Clara, CA
- Kaiser Permanente Vallejo Medical Center Vallejo, CA
- King Abdulaziz Hospital – Eastern Region Al Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
- Long Island Jewish Medical Center New Hyde Park, NY
- Maine Medical Center Portland, ME
- Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, FL
- Memorial Hermann Katy Katy, TX
- Memorial Hermann Northeast Humble, TX
- Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Hospital The Woodlands, TX
- Mercy General Hospital Sacramento, CA
- Mission Hospital Asheville, NC
- North Mississippi Medical Center Inc. Tupelo, MS
- Novant Health Presbyterian Medical Center Charlotte, NC
- NYU Langone Medical Center New York, NY
- Parkview Regional Medical Center Fort Wayne, IN
- PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend Springfield, OR
- Rush Oak Park Hospital Oak Park, IL
- Saint Joseph Hospital, Inc. Denver, CO
- South Miami Hospital Miami, FL
- Southern New Hampshire Medical Center Nashua, NH
- St. Charles Surgical Hospital New Orleans, LA
- Stanford Health Care Stanford, CA
- The George Washington University Hospital Washington, D.C.
- The Mount Sinai Hospital New York, NY
- UBC Hospital Vancouver, BC
- University of California San Francisco Medical Center San Francisco, CA
- University of Kentucky Albert B. Chandler Hospital Lexington, KY
- University of Washington Medical Center Seattle, WA
- UPMC Passavant – McCandless Pittsburgh, PA
- Waukesha Memorial Hospital Waukesha, WI
- Winthrop University Hospital Mineola, NY
ACS NSQIP is the only nationally validated quality improvement program that measures and enhances the care of surgical patients. This program measures the actual surgical results 30 days postoperatively as well as risk adjusts patient characteristics to compensate for differences among patient populations and acuity levels. The goal of ACS NSQIP is to reduce surgical morbidity (infection or illness related to a surgical procedure) and surgical mortality (death related to a surgical procedure) and to provide a firm foundation for surgeons to apply what is known as the “best scientific evidence” to the practice of surgery. Furthermore, when adverse effects from surgical procedures are reduced and/or eliminated, a reduction in health care costs follows. ACS NSQIP is a major program of the ACS and is currently used in over 650 adult or pediatric hospitals.
