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 Measures of Care
We believe it’s important for patients and families to know about the quality of care in any organization before making a decision about where to go for treatment . . .
We monitor the quality of our care continuously and use this information to guide our quality improvement efforts. We set our standards of care according to those recommended by well respected institutions that have based their recommendations on scientific knowledge and research.
In order to make this information available to you, the consumer, we voluntarily participate in several state and national projects that are using advances in information technology to display organizational data on their websites.
Below are several websites which display information about the quality of our care and safety initiatives, with comparison data from other organizations which offer similar services and are of similar size to Northfield Hospital.
Hospital data
Consumers can learn how patients rated their care at Northfield Hospital
and at other Minnesota hospitals, thanks to federal survey data available
on a hospital quality website. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare
Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) patient-opinion survey provides one
source of information consumers can use in evaluating their health-care
options. The study’s
results are available on the Minnesota Hospital Quality Report (MHQR)
Web site at mnhospitalquality.org.
For data on management of heart failure, pneumonia,
and, beginning in 2005, heart attack, visit cms.gov
• Click on ”Quality Initiatives” in the left-hand column
• Under “Quality initiatives” select “Hospital Quality
Initiative”
• Under “The National Voluntary Hospital Reporting Initiative”, select “National Voluntary Reporting” and
follow the steps to select Northfield Hospital.
For data on our progress toward nationally recommended
safety practices, visit Leapfroggroup.org
• Click on “Hospital Survey Results” in the left-hand column
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “Click here to view hospital survey results”
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on “View Hospital Survey results”
• Enter Minnesota
• Scroll down to view “Northfield City Hospital”
Long Term Care data
For data on quality measures, inspection results, and nursing home staffing, type in the website medicare.gov
• Click on ”Nursing Home Compare”
• Click on “city” and enter Northfield, select MN, then select “in this city/zip”
• Select “Northfield City Hospital”
• Select “View all information about this nursing home”
• Scroll down and click on either Quality measures, inspection results, or nursing home staffing
To view data on quality measures in graph format, click on the “Quality” tab at the top of the page
• Click on “Select all”
• Click on “Show all”
Home Health Care
For data on quality measures, type in the website medicare.gov
• Click on ”Home Health Compare”
• Select search by “name”
• Enter “Northfield” and select “Minnesota”
• Click on “Select all services”
• Click on “Select all”
• Click on “Select all”
To view the data in graph format, click on the “Quality Graphs” tab at the top of the page
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