LAFAYETTE – Franciscan Health Lafayette East was recently named as a 5 Star Hospital facility by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid in its annual quality survey posted on CMS' Hospital Compare website.
The hospital was among only 15 hospitals from Indiana that made the complete list of 337 hospitals from across the United States. Franciscan Health Mooresville and Franciscan Health Carmel also received 5 Star ratings.
According to CMS and Hospital Compare, the goal of the star ratings is to provide patients and consumers with information that will inform them about multiple dimensions of quality in a single measure.
The star ratings in this cycle for acute care hospitals rely on data from 2013 to 2017. While much of the data is required to be reported, it also factors in data from patient surveys from organizations such as Press Ganey. There are seven main categories of data: Outcomes-Mortality; Outcomes-Safety; Outcomes-Readmission; Patient Experience; Process-Effectiveness and Timeliness; and Efficiency-Imaging.
“We are extremely proud of the work all of our employees, physicians, medical staff members and volunteers do to provide care in the communities we are privileged to serve,” said Albert Tomchaney, MD, chief medical officer for the Franciscan Health system. “While three of our facilities have received this award, we all have been working together as a healthcare system to provide quality, cost-effective healthcare in our local settings.”
In Western Indiana, Franciscan Health Crawfordsville improved their ratings to 4 Stars and Franciscan Health Rensselaer improved their ratings to 3 Stars.
Franciscan Health is a member of Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Alliance, one of the largest Catholic healthcare systems in the Midwest with 14 growing hospitals, approximately 20,000 employees and a number of nationally recognized Centers of Healthcare Excellence. Franciscan Health includes Franciscan Health Lafayette East, Lafayette Central, Crawfordsville and Rensselaer, Franciscan Physician Network with offices in Lafayette, West Lafayette, Monticello, Crawfordsville and Rensselaer, and the St. Elizabeth School of Nursing.
Franciscan Health is accredited by Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, the Community Health Accreditation Program, the College of American Pathologists, the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care for Heart Failure and the Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology. The Franciscan Health Lafayette East Trauma Center has received its Level III verification from the Verification Review Committee and the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons. Franciscan Health is also a recipient of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Silver Performance Achievement Award, and its paramedic program has received programmatic accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). The St. Elizabeth School of Nursing is approved by the Indiana State Board of Nursing and nationally accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). For more information, please visit FranciscanHealth.org and FranciscanAlliance.org.
