Granville Health System participates in various state and national health performance measures and organizational ranking systems to provide patients the tools needed to make quality healthcare decisions. Process measures are another way to measure quality of care. A process measure determines if a patient was given a needed medicine, treatment, or diagnostic test at the right time. Through extensive research, national guidelines have been established for the recommended care of patients with various medical conditions.
Granville Health System, Oxford, is accredited by the Joint Commission, which is a nonprofit organization that accredits and certifies nearly 21,000 health care organizations and programs based on evaluations in the United States.
Joint Commission Quality Report (PDF)
For more information, visit the Joint Commission website
Granville Health System has been recognized with a 2022 Chartis Rural Hospital Performance Leadership Award for excellence in Patient Outcomes. Compiled by The Chartis Center for Rural Health, the Performance Leadership Awards honor top quartile performance (e.g., 75th percentile or above) among rural hospitals throughout the US in Quality, Outcomes and Patient Perspective.
The Performance Leadership Awards are based on the results of the Chartis Rural Hospital Performance INDEX™, the industry’s most comprehensive and objective assessment of rural hospital performance. INDEX data is trusted and relied upon by rural hospitals, health systems with rural footprints, hospital associations and state offices of rural health across the country to measure and monitor performance across several areas impacting hospital operations and finance.
Granville Health System has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes the hospital’s commitment to ensuring stroke patients receive the most appropriate treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines based on the latest scientific evidence.
Granville Health System earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients at a set level for a designated period. These measures include evaluation of the proper use of medications and other stroke treatments aligned with the most up-to-date, evidence-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients. Before discharge, patients should also receive education on managing their health, get a follow-up visit scheduled, as well as other care transition interventions
“Granville Health System is dedicated to improving the quality of care for our stroke patients by implementing the American Heart Association’s Get With The Guidelines-Stroke initiative,” said Director of Emergency Services Danika Davis, MSN, RN, CCRN, CEN. “The tools and resources provided help us track and measure our success in meeting evidenced-based clinical guidelines developed to improve patient outcomes.”
According to the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association, stroke is the No. 5 cause of death and a leading cause of adult disability in the United States. On average, someone in the U.S. suffers a stroke every 40 seconds and nearly 795,000 people suffer a new or recurrent stroke each year.
“We are pleased to be recognized by the American Heart Association for the care provided to stroke and heart patients as they seek care in the Emergency Department,” said John F. Snow, Granville Health System CEO. “This award is a demonstration of the excellent care provided by our medical staff, nursing staff, and the entire support team at GHS. I am so very proud of the team.”
Granville Health System has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in ultrasound and mammography by the American College of Radiology (ACR). The ACR gold seal of accreditation represents the highest level of image quality and patient safety. It is awarded only to facilities meeting ACR Practice Parameters and Technical Standards, following a peer-review evaluation by board-certified physicians and medical physicists who are experts in the field. Image quality, personnel qualifications, adequacy of facility equipment, quality control procedures and quality assurance programs are assessed. The findings are reported to the ACR Committee on Accreditation, which subsequently provides the practice with a comprehensive report that can be used for continuous practice improvement. For more information on the American College of Radiology visit acr.org.
At Granville Health System Clinical Laboratories we maintain the highest level of quality and comply with all federal regulations defined in the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA’88). We have a robust quality management program and many key quality indicators which are part of the overall quality assurance program for GHS. Our dedication to quality is demonstrated through our enrollment in the College of American Pathologists (CAP) laboratory accreditation program and our selection of the CAP as our accrediting entity. For more information on the College of American Pathologists visit cap.org.
Granville Health System’s Sleep Disorders Center is accredited by Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) for compliance with a comprehensive set of national standards. By choosing a healthcare provider that has achieved ACHC accreditation, you can take comfort in knowing that you will receive the highest quality of care. For more information on the Accreditation Commission for Health Care, visit achc.org.
