{"id":540661,"date":"2016-09-27T22:53:03","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T03:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=540661"},"modified":"2016-09-28T22:53:23","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T03:53:23","slug":"good-shepherd-gets-certification-for-hip-and-knee-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=540661","title":{"rendered":"Good Shepherd Gets Certification for Hip and Knee Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/Good-Shepherd-Medical-Center-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/Good-Shepherd-Medical-Center-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Good-Shepherd-Medical-Center-2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-388914\" \/><\/a>LONGVIEW &#8211; Good Shepherd Medical Center has earned The Joint Commission\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gold Seal of Approval for Advanced  Certification  for total hip and total knee replacement. According to the hospital&#8217;s web page, the advanced certification is for Joint Commission accredited hospitals, critical access hospitals and  ambulatory  surgery  centers  seeking  to elevate  the  quality,  consistency  and  safety  of  their services and patient care. According to Good Shepherd Health System President and CEO Steve Altmiller, &#8220;Good  Shepherd is delighted  with  the  continued  recognition  of  our  award  winning  care. This certification confirms we are succeeding by identifying Good Shepherd as one of the premier facilities across the country for total hip and total knee replacements.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Good  Shepherd underwent  an onsite  review  where Joint  Commission experts  evaluated compliance with advanced   disease-specific care standards and   total hip and total knee replacement  requirements,  including  orthopedic  consultation,  and  pre-operative, intraoperative and post-surgical orthopedic surgeon follow-up care.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Good Shepherd was recognized as one of the top five hospitals in the state for Medical  Excellence in orthopedic care by CareChex, a division of  Comparion  Medical Analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW &#8211; Good Shepherd Medical Center has earned The Joint Commission\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gold Seal of Approval for Advanced Certification for total hip and total knee replacement. According to the hospital&#8217;s web page, the advanced certification is for Joint Commission accredited hospitals, critical access hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers seeking to elevate the quality, consistency and safety &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=540661\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good Shepherd Gets Certification for Hip and Knee Replacement<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":453174,"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-540661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 21:08:35","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\/540661","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=540661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540664,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540661\/revisions\/540664"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/453174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=540661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=540661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=540661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}