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Morristown Medical Center Receives Meritorious Award for Surgical Quality

The American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP®) has recognized Morristown Medical Center, as one of 37 participating hospitals that has achieved meritorious outcomes for surgical patient care.

As a participant in ACS NSQIP, Morristown Medical Center is required to track the outcomes of inpatient and outpatient surgical procedures and collect data that directs patient safety and the quality of surgical care improvements.

The ACS NSQIP recognition program commends participating hospitals based on their outstanding composite quality score in these nine clinical areas related to patient management: mortality, unplanned intubation, ventilator more than 48 hours, renal failure, DVT (deep vein thrombosis, thrombophlebitis and pulmonary embolism), cardiac incidents (cardiac arrest and myocardial infarction), respiratory (pneumonia), SSI (surgical site infections-superficial and deep incisional and organ-space SSIs), or urinary tract infection.

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Risk-adjusted data from the July 2013 ACS NSQIP Semiannual Report, which presents data from the 2012 calendar year, were used to determine which hospitals demonstrated meritorious outcomes.

“This prestigious award reflects that the quality of Morristown Medical Center’s surgical services is as robust and diverse as the conditions they treat,” said Rolando Rolandelli MD, FACS, chairman of the department of surgery at Morristown Medical Center.

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Morristown Medical Center offers many surgical services and procedures for cancer, pediatrics, gastrointestinal, orthopedics, urological and urogynecological, emergency and trauma and more.

The hospital offers robotic surgery for gynecologic, urologic and cardiac conditions, and was the first hospital in Northwestern New Jersey to treat patients with the daVinci® Robotic Surgical System. The surgeons of the Atlantic Health System Weight & Wellness Center at Morristown Medical Center are experts in laparoscopic bariatric surgery using the most advanced techniques that result in more rapid recovery for our patients.

At Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute at Morristown Medical Center, which performs more open-heart surgical procedures than any other hospital in the state, surgeons are experts in vascular surgery, coronary bypass surgery, valve replacement and repairs, and major aortic surgery, amongst many others.

ACS NSQIP is the only nationally validated quality improvement program that measures and enhances the care of surgical patients. This program measures the actual surgical results 30 days postoperatively as well as risk adjusts patient characteristics to compensate for differences among patient populations and acuity levels. The goal of ACS NSQIP is to reduce surgical morbidity (infection or illness related to a surgical procedure) and surgical mortality (death related to a surgical procedure) and to provide a firm foundation for surgeons to apply what is known as the “best scientific evidence” to the practice of surgery.

Furthermore, when adverse effects from surgical procedures are reduced and/or eliminated, a reduction in health care costs follows. ACS NSQIP is a major program of the American College of Surgeons and is currently used in over 500 hospitals.

The American College of Surgeons is a scientific and educational organization of surgeons that was founded in 1913 to raise the standards of surgical practice and to improve the care of the surgical patient.  The College is dedicated to the ethical and competent practice of surgery. Its achievements have significantly influenced the course of scientific surgery in America and have established it as an important advocate for all surgical patients.  The College has more than 74,000 members and it is the largest organization of surgeons in the world.

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