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Legacy Meridian Hospital Comments on Pneumonia:
Why is the pneumonia mortality rate higher at Legacy Meridian Park? This is a good example of a non-quality related practice influencing a mortality rate. We have investigated this finding within the last year (as it was apparent on our own quality reporting system), and we determined that these deaths were in patients with other terminal illnesses who had been admitted to the hospital for comfort care. That is, their deaths were expected and there had been a determination that treating the pneumonia would only prolong their suffering. The higher death rate was therefore expected and did not reflect any lapses in the quality of care.
How is Legacy managing its quality processes?
Legacy staff regularly monitor mortality rates, along with many other indicators of care quality, in their efforts to provide the highest and safest care quality. Teams of physicians, nurses and administrators are constantly looking for new and better ways to reduce medication errors, infections, and other complications of the complex care processes provided in the hospital. Data such as these have long been part of that process and are viewed as an important part of our quality efforts.
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