St. Vincent’s Medical Center, a Hartford HealthCare hospital in Bridgeport, earned a “center of excellence” designation from independent accreditor The Joint Commission for its hip fracture treatment, the health system announced Thursday.
The designation comes after a review of the hospital’s results for patients with hip fracture, an injury that results in the hospitalization of 300,000 people aged 65 and older in the U.S. each year.
St. Vincent’s is the first hospital in Fairfield County to earn The Joint Commission’s center of excellence designation for hip fracture, according to Hartford HealthCare.
Dr. David Martin, director of the hip fracture program at St. Vincent’s, said, “Our recent recognition and certification by The Joint Commission means that we’ve built a collaborative system or framework which will provide our hip fracture patients the best possible outcomes.”
The Joint Commission evaluates treatment programs on metrics, such as the time between a patient’s arrival in the emergency department and when they are operated on.
St. Vincent’s hip fracture program involves collaboration between the hospital’s emergency department, orthopedic surgeons, nurses and rehab teams at its Connecticut Orthopaedic Institute.
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