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27 QUALITY & ACCREDITATION The Joint Commission Deletes 135 Performance Elements for Ambulatory, Office-based Surgery Programs By Eric Oliver T he Joint Commission removed 85 ele- ments of performance evaluation from its Ambulatory Health Care accredi- tation program and 50 elements of perfor- mance evaluation from its Office-Based Surgery programs, Ambulatory Buzz reports. e deleted EPs were: • Duplicative • In place for years, but address now routine concepts • No longer addressed quality and safety concerns • Addressed by other laws and regulations e Joint Commission's Division of Stan- dards and Survey Method's Joyce Webb said in the blog, "Frankly, we discovered these EPs were no longer needed. ere a lot of things organizations do to make sure they provide safe and effective patient care, but not everything needs to be addressed through a Joint Commission requirement. e changes we've made here will help orga- nizations focus on what's most important." e deletions will be effective July 1, 2017. A full list will be available in e Joint Com- mission's monthly newsletter Perspectives. n 28 Physician-owned Hospitals That Patients Would Definitely Recommend By Laura Dyrda T hese 28 physician-owned hospitals received 92 percent or more of their patients reporting on HCAHPS surveys that they would definitely recom- mend the hospital; the national average is 72 percent. The numbers were pulled from CMS' Hospital Compare website with data compiled from July 2015 through June 2016, the most recent data available. The hospitals with fewer than 100 completed surveys weren't considered for the list. 1. Patients' Hospital of Redding (Calif.) — 99 percent 2. Oklahoma Heart Hospital (Oklahoma City) — 96 percent 3. The Heart Hospital Baylor Denton (Texas) — 96 percent 4. Advanced Surgical Hospital (Washington, Pa.) — 95 percent 5. Orthopaedic Hospital of Wisconsin (Glendale) — 95 percent 6. Surgical Hospital at Southwoods (Youngstown, Ohio) — 95 percent 7. Arkansas Heart Hospital (Little Rock) — 94 percent 8. Oklahoma Heart Hospital South (Oklahoma City) — 94 percent 9. OSS Orthopaedic Hospital (York, Pa.) — 94 percent 10. Sutter Surgical Hospital-North Valley (Yuba City, Calif.) — 94 percent 11. WellSpan Surgery and Rehabilitation Hospital (York, Pa.) — 94 percent 12. Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota (Sioux Falls, S.D.) — 93 percent 13. Black Hills Surgical Hospital (Rapid City, S.D.) — 93 percent 14. Midwest Surgical Hospital (Omaha, Neb.) — 93 percent 15. P&S Surgical Hospital (Monroe, La.) — 93 percent 16. Park Place Surgical Hospital (Lafayette, La.) — 93 per- cent 17. Salina (Kan.) Surgical Hospital — 93 percent 18. Animas Surgical Hospital (Durango, Colo.) — 92 per- cent 19. Central Louisiana Surgical Hospital (Alexandria) — 92 percent 20. Oakleaf Surgical Hospital (Altoona, Wis.) — 92 percent 21. The Physicians Centre (Bryan, Texas) — 92 percent 22. Premier Surgical Institute (Galena, Kan.) — 92 percent 23. Quail Creek Surgical Hospital (Amarillo, Texas) — 92 percent 24. Sugar Land (Texas) Surgical Hospital — 92 percent 25. Surgical Institute of Reading (Wyomissing, Pa.) — 92 percent 26. Texas Spine and Joint Hospital (Tyler) — 92 percent 27. The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano (Texas) — 92 percent 28. The Spine Hospital of Louisiana (Baton Rouge) — 92 percent n