Delivering personalized care with leading-edge technology is what we do every day at Community Hospital. But how well we fulfill that entrusted charge is measured largely by our ongoing, widespread assessments of quality of care and patient safety. Community Hospital's Patient Safety Goals.

With those goals in mind, Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) now provides on it's web site Hospital Compare information about patients’ experience of care at our hospital. The HQA is a national public-private collaboration of hospital groups, consumer representatives, physician and nursing organizations, employers and payers, oversight organizations and government agencies dedicated to encouraging hospitals to voluntarily collect and make public quality of care information. The goal of the HQA’s Hospital Compare Web site is to give consumers a broad look at the quality of hospital care.

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 5 Million Lives Campaign is a national campaign to dramatically reduce incidents of medical harm in U.S. hospitals. The 5 Million Lives Campaign asks hospitals to improve the care they provide in order to protect patients from 5 million incidents of medical harm over a 24-month period, ending December 9, 2008.

The 5 Million Lives Campaign builds upon the success of the 100,000 Lives Campaign in which 3,100 participating facilities (representing 75% of U.S. hospital beds,) avoided unnecessary deaths by implementing six evidence-based interventions, along with other worthy improvement initiatives.