{"id":318862,"date":"2014-11-17T11:11:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T17:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=318862"},"modified":"2014-11-18T10:59:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T16:59:28","slug":"two-honors-for-etmc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=318862","title":{"rendered":"Two Honors for ETMC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/11\/thumb_ETMC-hospital-sign-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/11\/thumb_ETMC-hospital-sign-2-150x119.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_ETMC-hospital-sign-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-318863\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; East Texas Medical Center has received a couple of national honors. ETMC Tyler been recognized as a 2013 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States, according to an ETMC news release.   ETMC Tyler was recognized as part of The Joint Commission\u2019s 2014 annual report \u201cAmerica\u2019s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety.\u201d Hospital officials say that recognition came for attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability measure performance for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care. ETMC Tyler is one of 1,224 hospitals in the United States to achieve the 2013 Top Performer distinction. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand what matters most to patients at ETMC Tyler is the quality and safety of the care they receive. That is why we have made it a top priority to improve positive patient outcomes through evidence-based care processes,\u201d said Bob Evans, administrator\/CEO of ETMC Tyler.  \u201cWe are proud to be named a Top Performer as it recognizes the knowledge, teamwork and dedication of our entire hospital staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Also, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons has given the ETMC Cardiovascular Institute its highest rating, three out of three stars, for outstanding results for patients of coronary artery bypass surgery from 2013.  \u201cOnly 12 to 15 percent of cardiovascular programs in the nation are awarded three stars and we are so pleased to be in this elite group,\u201d said Dianne Adelfio, vice president of operations. \u201cThis program, unlike other \u201cquality rating\u201d programs,\u201d requires no fee for allowing the public to know the findings of the study. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; East Texas Medical Center has received a couple of national honors. ETMC Tyler been recognized as a 2013 Top Performer on Key Quality Measures by The Joint Commission, the leading accreditor of health care organizations in the United States, according to an ETMC news release. ETMC Tyler was recognized as part of The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=318862\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Honors for ETMC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 08:01:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318864,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318862\/revisions\/318864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}