Cary Medical Center has scored among the top 10% of hospitals in the United States in measuring performance on standards of care in the treatment of Pneumonia.  Cary scored 100% on five out of seven measures and outscored the nations top hospitals on two measures.  The scores reflect the results of the latest quality care assessment completed by the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA).  The HQA is a reporting initiative providing information on the quality of care in hospitals who volunteered to report their data for selected clinical topics.

     The organizations website www.aha.org/aja_app/issues/HQA/index.jsp contains the latest data and resources available for this initiative to make hospital quality information publicly available and to improve the care hospitals provide.  The HQA performance data assesses hospitals on 24 different quality measures.  Beth Feldpush, Senior Associate Director for Quality at the American Hospital Association said that the performance measures used by the Hospital Quality Alliance have a strong evidence base.