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Quality at AAMC

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Core Quality Measure Scores

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), along with its collaborators in the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) and the nation's hospitals have worked together to create and publicly report hospital quality information.

The hospital quality measures on AAMC's web site show recommended care for some of the most common conditions that hospitals treat. Research has shown that these treatments provide the best results for most adults with those conditions that are an important part of the patients' overall care. You will see some of the recommended care that an adult should get if being treated for a heart attack, heart failure or pneumonia, or having surgery.

The graph listed below has quality measures scores on how often AAMC provides some of the recommended care compared to what other hospital average scores are across the state.

This information helps you, your health care provider, family, and friends compare the quality of care provided in the hospitals that agree to submit data on the quality of certain services they provide for certain conditions. This quality information not only helps you make good decisions about your health care, but also encourages hospitals to improve the quality of health care they provide.

Core Measures
April - May 2011

Hospital Compare Measure FY11 Q4 State Mean AAMC Goal
✔ HF 1 Discharge Instructions 94 86 100
✔ HF 2 LVF Assessment 98 98 100
✔ HF 3 ACE or ARB prescribed at discharge 95 93 100
✔  HF 4 Smoking Cessation Counseling 100 97 100
✔ PN 2 Pneumococcal Vaccination 97 91 100
✔ PN 3a Blood Cultures within 24 hours prior to or 24 h after arrival for patients transferred or admit ICU 94 TBD 100
✔ PN 3b ED Blood Culture prior to antibiotic 94 92 100
✔ PN 4 Smoking Cessation Counseling 100 97 100
✔ PN 5c Antibiotic administered within 6 hrs of hospital visit  99 94 100
✔ PN 6 Appropriate initial antibiotic regimen 95 92 100
✔ PN 7 Influenza Vaccination NA 88 100
✔ SCIP-1a Prophylactic Antibiotics initiated within 1 hour of surgical incision 96 96 100
✔ SCIP-2a: Patient received recommended prophylactic antibiotics 98 97 100
✔ SCIP -3a: Prophylactic antibiotics discontinued within 24 hours of surgery end time 98 94 100
✔ SCIP - Card -2 Beta Blocker received during perioperative period 97 91 100
✔ SCIP - 6- Appropriate Hair removal 100 100 100
  SCIP 9- Urinary Catheterization 93 89 100
  SCIP 10 Perioperative temperature management 98 TBD 100
✔ SCIP-VTE-1-VTE Ordered 100 92 100
✔ SCIP-VTE-2-VTE Received 97 90 100
✔ AMI-1: Aspirin at arrival 98 98 100
✔ AMI-2: Aspirin prescribed at discharge  100 98 100
✔ AMI-3:ACEI or ARB for LVSD 90 94 100
✔ AMI-4: Smoking Cessation Counseling 100 98 100
✔ AMI-5: Beta blocker at discharge  100 97 100
✔ AMI-8a: PCI within 90 minutes of arrival  100 82 100
  AMI-10 Statin at discharge-  reporting begins Jan 1, 2011 discharges) 100    
✔ CAC-1 Reliever Medication Administered 100 TBD 100
✔ CAC-2  Systemic Steroid Medication Administered 96 TBD 100
✔ CAC-3 Home Management Plan of Care 86 TBD 100