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St. Joseph Medical Center believes in providing the best care available to patients in the Kansas City area. St.
Joseph Medical Center voluntarily reports Quality Measures to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS) and the Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) and has done so since October 2003. Through research,
doctors and other scientists have established Best Practice guidelines and continue to refine national guidelines for
recommended care of patients with heart attacks, heart failure, and pneumonia which may include giving needed
medicine, treatments or tests at the appropriate time. St. Joseph Medical Center reports the results of their
performance for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia as part of a national report. This information will
help you compare the quality of care provided at St. Joseph Medical Center to other hospitals in the area.
The data is available on the CMS website
http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/Hospital
(Select County (Jackson) - then choose the hospitals you wish to view)
St. Joseph Medical Center is also participating in a Hospital Quality Demonstration Project with CMS and Premier
Inc. This project includes Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery and Total Hip/ Total Knee Surgery.
These graphs compare St. Joseph Medical Center to the other 269 hospitals participating in this project around the
nation for Hip/Knee and CABG surgeries.
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