Awards
'A' Rating for Patient Safety - 2021
The Leapfrog Group
UConn John Dempsey Hospital has received an 'A' rating by the independent hospital watchdog The Leapfrog Group. The Hospital Safety Score is the gold standard rating for patient safety, compiled under the guidance of the nation’s leading patient safety experts and administered by The Leapfrog Group, the first and only hospital safety rating to be peer-reviewed in the Journal of Patient Safety. The Hospital Safety Score is free to the public and designed to give consumers information they can use to protect themselves and their families when facing a hospital stay. Learn more.
High Performing Hospital - Kidney Failure
U.S. News & World Report
UConn John Dempsey Hospital has been recognized in U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals 2021-22 rankings as a high-performing hospital for kidney failure. The score is based on data on patient survival, volume, and more. John Dempsey received the highest score for survival rate, which is significantly better than the national average.
High Performing Hospital - Stroke
U.S. News & World Report
UConn John Dempsey Hospital has been recognized in U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals 2021-22 rankings as a high-performing hospital for stroke. The score is based on data on patient survival, volume, discharge to home, and more. John Dempsey received the highest score for survival rate and discharging patients directly to home. Both are significantly better than the national average.
HEARTSafe Campus
State of Connecticut Department of Public Health/American Heart Association
UConn Health is the first medical center in Connecticut designated as a “HEARTSafe Campus” by the State of Connecticut Department of Public Health in collaboration with the American Heart Association (AHA). The three-year designation recognizes UConn Health’s commitment to provide improved cardiac response and care to the staff, students, and visitors of the campus utilizing the “Chain of Survival” of early 911 access, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillation, and advanced care. Learn more.
Best Maternity Care Hospital
Newsweek
The distinction recognizes facilities that have provided exceptional care to mothers, newborns and their families, as verified by the 2020 Leapfrog Hospital Survey. This includes achieving lower rates of C-sections (NTSV), early elective delivery, and episiotomy, as well as assuring bilirubin screening for all newborns and blood clot prevention techniques for mothers delivering via C-section. UConn John Dempsey Hospital was one of fewer than 225 to receive the prestigious accolade.
Blue Distinction Center+ in Maternity Care
BlueCross BlueShield Association
UConn John Dempsey Hospital is designated a “Blue Distinction Center+” for maternity care.
“Blue Distinction Center+” is a designation from the BlueCross BlueShield Association for demonstrating more affordable care in addition to expertise and a commitment to quality care for vaginal and cesarean section deliveries, and for better overall patient satisfaction and a lower percentage of early elective deliveries.
Blue Distinction Center+ for Knee and Hip Replacement and Spine Surgery
BlueCross BlueShield Association
The UConn Musculoskeletal Institute is designated a “Blue Distinction Center+” for both knee and hip replacement and spine surgery.
“Blue Distinction” is a designation from the BlueCross BlueShield Association recognizing health care facilities for their expertise in the safe, efficient, and cost-effective delivery of quality specialty care. UConn Health has been designated as a “Blue Distinction Center+ for Knee and Hip Replacement” and “Blue Distinction Center+ for Spine Surgery" for meeting nationally established quality care and outcomes criteria, plus meeting cost measures that address the need for affordable health care.
Stroke Gold Plus and Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Award - 2021
American Heart Association/American Stroke Association
Our commitment to quality stroke care is being recognized by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association. We’ve been honored with the Get With The Guidelines® Stroke Gold Plus and Target: Stroke Honor Roll Elite Award which means we reached an aggressive goal of treating patients with 85 percent or higher compliance to core standard levels of care for two consecutive years. The recognition also takes into account the administering of clot-busting treatment for ischemic stroke patients within 60 minutes of arrival at the hospital more than 75 percent of the time, dramatically improving patient outcomes. Read more.
Mission: Lifeline® Gold Receiving Quality Achievement Award - 2021
American Heart Association
The Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center at UConn Health received the Mission: Lifeline® Gold Receiving Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures for the treatment of patients who suffer severe heart attacks. Read more.
(STEMI) Heart Attack Receiving Center Accreditation - 2019-2022
American Heart Association
UConn John Dempsey Hospital has received the American Heart Association’s Mission: Lifeline® Heart Attack Receiving Center Accreditation. The accreditation program — provided by the American Heart Association — recognizes centers that meet or exceed quality of care measures for people experiencing the most severe type of heart attack, ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), in which blood flow is completely blocked to a portion of the heart. The accreditation identifies health care facilities that meet specific criteria for lifesaving heart attack treatments that restore blood flow.
Regional Excellence for Pulmonary Hypertension Care
Pulmonary Hypertension Association
UConn Health is now designated by the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) as a Pulmonary Hypertension Regional Clinical Program. By designating regional centers of excellence across the nation the PHA hopes to improve the overall quality of care and outcomes of pulmonary hypertension patients. UConn Health was identified and approved as a regional program due to its infrastructure and experience to best manage the disease. The accreditation runs until May 2020 when an onsite reaccreditation review by the PHA will occur.
National Recognition for Digital Advances in Ambulatory Tools
CHIME Digital Health
UConn Health's efforts have been recognized in the 2021 Digital Health Most Wired award program, achieving Special Recognition in its Digital Health Certified Ambulatory Level 7 category. Based on comprehensive surveys measuring implementation, goals, progress, and results, the award reflects UConn Health's successful deployment of technologies and strategies such as population health/cost-of-care analytics, Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), telehealth, and enhancing the patient portal. This award also reflects meaningful clinical and efficiency outcomes.
Gold Seal of Approval®
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations
The John Dempsey Hospital at UConn Health earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval® for accreditation by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety in hospitals. The accreditation award recognizes UConn Health’s dedication to continuous compliance with The Joint Commission’s state-of-the-art standards.
Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology
American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists and Surgical Review Corporation
UConn Health is an AAGL Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology. The program recognizes hospitals and surgeons around the world providing exceptional minimally invasive gynecologic surgical care and dedicated to continuously improving healthcare quality and patient safety.
NICHE Member
NICHE (Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders)
UConn Health is proud to be a member of NICHE, a nursing education and consultation program dedicated to improving the quality of care for older adults. The NICHE program of NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing was founded in 1992 and includes 566 member organizations. It provides valuable resources for nursing and interdisciplinary teams to achieve organizational goals for geriatric care.
Primary Stroke Center
The Joint Commission
The Stroke Center has been certified as a Primary Stroke Center by the The Joint Commission. The Joint Commission's Certificate of Distinction for Primary Stroke Centers recognizes centers that make exceptional efforts to foster better outcomes for stroke care. Achievement of certification signifies that the services you provide have the critical elements to achieve long-term success in improving outcomes.
Echocardiography Accredited Facility
Intersocietal Accreditation Commission
The Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center Echo lab has been accredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in Echocardiography in the areas of Adult Stress, Adult Transesophageal, and Adult Transthoracic.
The accreditation is given after an extensive, expert review of the operational and technical aspects of the Center and is indicative of compliance with national standards and a commitment to providing quality testing and patient care.
Vascular Testing Accredited Facility
Intersocietal Accreditation Commission
The Pat and Jim Calhoun Cardiology Center Echo lab has been accredited by the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) in Peripheral Arterial Vascular Testing.
The accreditation is given after an extensive, expert review of the operational and technical aspects of the Center and is indicative of compliance with national standards and a commitment to providing quality testing and patient care.
Recognized Patient-Centered Medical Home
National Committee for Quality Assurance
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) recognizes eight of our practices as patient-centered medical homes:
- Family Medicine
- Canton
- Storrs
- Internal Medicine
- East Hartford
- Farmington
- Simsbury
- Southington
- West Hartford
- UConn Center on Aging
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