Measures of care
Patients and families have a right to know about the quality of care they receive at Owatonna Hospital. That’s why we monitor the quality of our care constantly and use it to guide our quality improvement initiatives. Our standards of care are based on suggestions by non-profit and governmental institutions that base their recommendations on scientific knowledge and research.
We voluntarily participate in several state and national initiatives that allow us to show our performance using information technology for real time viewing and comparisons.
We recently joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvements 5 Million Lives Campaign, which is an initiative to protect patients from five million incidents of medical harm over the next two years.
In 2008, Owatonna Hospital received the Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA) Innovation of the Year in Patient Care Award for it's Cardiac Heart Failure Initiative.
Below are several websites that provide consumer-friendly 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 Owatonna Hospital.
Leapfrog
Minnesota became the first state in the nation with 100 percent of hospital’s agreeing to provide information to “Leapfrog,” a national patient safety organization that compiles patient safety data for review by the public. To access data on Owatonna Hospital’s progress toward nationally recommended safety practices follow the directions below:
- Select Leapfrog link here
- Scroll down to the “For Consumers” box
- Select the link “Click here to find Leapfrog’s ratings of hospital quality.”
- Follow the instructions to find Owatonna Hospital either by zip code, city and state, state, or hospital name. Then, select the “Go” button.
- Select the box under “Click to Compare”.
Hospital Compare
This website provides consumers with information on how well hospitals in your area care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions. The site allows patients and families to compare the performance of virtually all the nation’s acute care hospitals on 18 common quality measures for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia care. Hospital Compare was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and organizations that represent hospitals, doctors, employers, accrediting organizations, other Federal agencies and the public.
- Select Hospital Compare link here
- Scroll down to the box titled “How would you like to search for a Hospital?”
- Select either by “State”, “County”, “City”, “Zip Code”, or by “Hospital Name”. Then select “Next Step” button.
- Select “Owatonna Hospital”. Then, select “Next Step.”
- Select the conditions you would like to view: Heart Attack, Heart Failure, Pneumonia, Surgical Infection Prevention. Then, select the “Next Step” button.
- Select the measures. Then, select the “Next Step” button.
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