Quality and Accreditations

Southern Regional is committed to providing our patients and community members with published statistical information about clinical processes at our hospital. We believe that well-informed patients will take a more active role in improving their health condition.

A leading trend in healthcare includes the effort to increase consumer knowledge about hospitals and healthcare organizations in order to aid consumers in making more well-informed healthcare decisions. Southern Regional supports this effort and is pleased to provide these reports noting Southern Regional's performance on a number of nationally recognized quality indicators and practices.

Included With This Quality Report

The following information may be found within the individual Indicator Reports contained within the Quality Report. This information is updated regularly as new data is available, usually within six months.

Quality indicators and safe practices currently included in this report are:

• Heart Attack
• Heart Failure
• Pneumonia
• Surgical Care

These statistics and descriptions do not begin to represent all there is to know about the quality of hospitals. You should not attempt to choose a hospital based solely on statistics and descriptions such as those in this report, as these are just a snapshot of current statistics. Current methods of assessing hospital quality are not mature enough to support such a use.

For additional information and resources, please visit U.S. Department of Healthand Human Services and The Joint Commission.