Baptist Memphis is one of 90 hospitals participating in the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP) to achieve meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care for the 2020 calendar year. ACS NSQIP is a major American College of Surgeons program and is used in nearly 850 adult and pediatric hospitals.
The ACS NSQIP recognition program commends a select group of hospitals for achieving a meritorious composite score in either an “All Cases” category or a category that includes only “High Risk” cases. Baptist Memphis earned recognition on both “All Cases” and “High Risk” meritorious lists.
Each composite score was determined through a different weighted formula combining eight outcomes. The outcome performances related to patient management were in the following eight clinical areas: mortality, unplanned intubation, ventilator > 48 hours, renal failure, cardiac incidents (cardiac arrest and myocardial infarction); respiratory (pneumonia); SSI (surgical site infections-superficial and deep incisional and organ-space SSIs); or urinary tract infection.
As a participant in ACS NSQIP, Baptist Memphis tracks outcomes of inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures and collects data to assess patient safety. This data can be used to direct improvement in the quality of surgical care.
ACS NSQIP is the only nationally validated quality improvement program that measures and enhances the care of surgical patients. The program measures the actual surgical results 30 days postoperatively and risk adjusts patient characteristics to compensate for differences among patient populations and acuity levels.
