Celebrating Doctor's Day!

On Friday, we celebrated Doctor's Day with our medical staff in the Rudd Heart & Lung Conference Center. It is always a great occasion to be able to recognize our physicians for their dedication to their patients and support of our hospital's mission. Each year at this time I am reminded of the important role that our medical staff plays in helping to lead and grow our organization to continued new heights.

Over the past year we have taken on a number of new initiatives that have helped us to improve the quality, service, and efficiency of the care we deliver to our patients. Specifically, with the help of our medical staff leaders who took on the challenge of chairing our new service line committees that kicked off in 2009, we achieved significant improvement in each of our core measure "perfect-care" bundles*. This year, on Doctor's Day, we chose to recognize those physicians who achieved the highest level of achievement in quality and service.

This year's winners for Highest Patient Satisfaction at Jewish Hospital were :

• Outstanding Patient Satisfaction at the 99^th Percentile: Dr. Raymond Shea
• Outstanding Patient Satisfaction at the 99^th Percentile: Dr. Kelly McCants
• Outstanding Patient Satisfaction at the 92^nd Percentile: Dr. Brian Ganzel

And for Frazier Rehab:

• Outstanding Patient Satisfaction at the 99^th Percentile: Dr. Kenneth Mook
• Outstanding Patient Satisfaction at the 94^th Percentile: Dr. Douglas Stevens
• Outstanding Patient Satisfaction at the 92^nd Percentile: Dr. Louie Williams

Those physicians recognized for highest achievement of CMS Core Measures are:

• Perfect Care Bundle Results at the 96^th Percentile: Dr. Chandhiran Rangaswamy
• Perfect Care Bundle Results at the 95^th Percentile: Dr. Ibrahim Fahsah
• Perfect Care Bundle Results at the 94^th Percentile: Dr. Naresh Solankhi
• Perfect Care Bundle Results at the 94^th Percentile: Dr. Larry Leslie

I wish to congratulate all of these physicians for their outstanding outcomes in delivering the highest quality patient care and I thank our entire medical staff for their continued efforts at making Jewish Hospital and Frazier Rehab the best hospital in America!

*A note on the quality awards: The core measure bundle used for the physician quality award includes core measures within the AMI, Heart Failure and community-acquired Pneumonia core measure sets. The AMI-HF-PN bundle score is the percentage of patients meeting all core measure requirements relative to the specific measures for which they qualify within these sets. The denominator is the total number of patients that qualify for one or more measures within the AMI, HF and PN measure sets. The numerator is the number of core measure patients for which all core measure requirements were met. So, “perfect care” is defined relative to having followed the core measure evidence based practice protocols completely within each sub-set.

Celebrating Doctor's Day!