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Report Card:

Consistent High Quality

Scientific studies have shown that patients with certain conditions benefit from specific tests, treatments, and medications, many of which need to be delivered in a timely way to get optimal benefit. We know that the health care industry can be slow to adopt these proven interventions. Clinical experts at Partners HealthCare work together to review recommended guidelines and standardize their best practices to ensure that all patients in our system - whether in the hospital or the physician's office - get the care that has been shown to be of benefit as soon as possible.

Read more about our Outpatient affiliates in the "Our Commitment to Quality" section of this web site.

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Inpatient Quality

Report CardOur Current Performance Reference Point How We’re Doing
Opening Blocked Arteries Within 90 Minutes88%
Data from October - December 2008
82%
The Joint Commission National Average, January 2008 through December 2008
  
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Delivering Recommended Care for Patients With Heart Attack99%
Data from October - December 2008
98%
The Joint Commission State 50th Percentile, January 2008 through December 2008
Delivering Recommended Care for Patients With Pneumonia91%
Data from October - December 2008
92%
The Joint Commission State 50th Percentile, January 2008 through December 2008
Delivering Recommended Care for Patients With Heart Failure98%
Data from October - December 2008
92%
The Joint Commission State 50th Percentile, January 2008 through December 2008
Delivering Recommended Care to Prevent Surgical Infections96%
Data from October - December 2008
96%
The Joint Commission State 50th Percentile, January 2008 through December 2008
Helping Tobacco Users Quit99%
Data from October - December 2008
96%
The Joint Commission State 50th Percentile, January 2008 through December 2008
  
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Rate of Central Line Infections per 1,000 Central Line Days in the ICU0.6
Data from January - June 2009. For this metric, a lower value is better.
1.5
For this metric, a lower value is better. Comparison Group is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Healthcare Safety Network Report, data summary for 2007, issued November 2008. Am J Infect Control 2008; 36:609-26.

 

Outpatient Quality

Report CardOur Current Performance Reference Point How We’re Doing
Asthma Medications: Ages 5 to 1797%
January - December 2007
97%
Massachusetts State Average
Asthma Medications: Ages 18 to 5688%
January - December 2007
94%
National 90th percentile
Breast Cancer Screening82%
January - December 2007
80%
Massachusetts State Average
Cervical Cancer Screening91%
January - December 2007
91%
Massachusetts State Average
Chlamydia Screening: Ages 16 to 2054%
January - December 2007
51%
Massachusetts State Average
Cholesterol Management: LDL-C Screening99%
January - December 2007
97%
Massachusetts State Average
Diabetes Care: Eye Exams81%
January - December 2007
77%
Massachusetts State Average
Diabetes Care: HbA1c Testing98%
January - December 2007
96%
Massachusetts State Average
Diabetes Care: LDL-C Screening94%
January - December 2007
91%
Massachusetts State Average
Diabetes Care: Monitoring Nephropathy93%
January - December 2007
88%
Massachusetts State Average