The initiative aims to enhance patient safety, care quality, and performance consistency across 69 hospitals.
Advocate Health and The Joint Commission have announced a new collaboration focused on improving patient safety and care quality across the health system’s 69 hospitals. The initiative will use systemwide accreditation and performance benchmarking to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and operational efficiency.
As part of the agreement, Advocate Health—one of the largest nonprofit integrated health systems in the US—will pursue hospital accreditation across its entire network. The approach is intended to support consistent quality standards across facilities and provide a framework for measuring outcomes within the system and against comparable peer groups.
According to The Joint Commission, the benchmarking tools available through its accreditation process allow for both system-level and facility-specific performance views, helping healthcare teams assess strengths and target areas in need of improvement.
“When hospitals and clinics deliver higher quality care, people get to spend more time where it matters most—with their families, loved ones, and in the work they find meaningful,” says Advocate Health chief medical officer Betty Chu, MD, in a release. “By aligning our organization around a unified set of evidence-based standards, we’re empowering our entire team to drive improvements for all.”
Jonathan B. Perlin, MD, PhD, president and CEO of The Joint Commission, adds in a release: “A systemwide approach to accreditation is best for health systems to deliver safe and quality care, which in turn benefits patients, the workforce, and communities. We look forward to working with Advocate Health to build resilient health care, enable continuous improvement, and share data, insights, and experiences to advance health outcomes.”
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