John Muir Health

Programs: Hospital services - general medicine and surgery. The core of john muir health's service to the community is in its general medicine and surgery program, which provides comprehensive care from emergency services to high level critical care to discharge support and home health for patients with a variety of conditions. John muir medical center, walnut creek serves as the only county-designated trauma center for the area, working closely with local emergency services leaders. National recognitions received in 2014 include (1) recognition of john muir medical center, walnut creek by u. S. News & world report for the eighth year in a row as one of "america's best hospitals" for gastroenterology & gi surgery, gynecology and orthopedics, (2) recognition of john muir medical center, concord by u. S. News & world report as one of "america's best hospitals" for the second year in a row for diabetes & endocrinology and orthopedics, (3) recognition of 11 services combined at the walnut creek and concord hospitals as nationally ranked or high performing by u. S. News & world report (4) u. S. News and world report also ranked john muir medical center, walnut creek #2 and john muir medical center, concord #3 out of all 45 hospitals in the san francisco-oakland area based on patient survival, patient safety, and care-related factors such as nursing and patient services, and reputation. The two hospitals were also ranked #10 and #12 in california out of 400 hospitals, (5) john muir medical center, walnut creek was named one of america's 50 best hospitals by healthgrades, and received recognition for patient safety and patient experience excellence, (6) john muir medical center , concord was ranked as one of the country's 125 hospitals with great orthopedic programs by becker's healthcare review and received a patient safety excellence award from healthgrades (7) john muir medical center, walnut creek was ranked among the top five percent of hospitals nationally for quality of care by healthgrades, and both hospitals received five-star ratings and rankings in the top 10% in the nation for several services, procedures and treatments, (8) the john muir physician network received elite status from the california association of physician groups for the fourth consecutive year based upon how well-equipped and organized we are to deliver a high-quality patient experience, coordinate care and provide for population health programs, while at the same time improving the overall affordability of health care services. Our program emphasis in 2014 was on continued outreach to uninsured, underserved, and vulnerable populations in our service area through community partnerships to provide direct services including themobile dental clinic, mobile health clinic, and support for operation access, violence prevention, and school-based nursing.

cardiovascular care is the second largest hospital-based service of john muir health. Achievements in 2014 included recognition by the american heart association of john muir health's concord medical center for providing outstanding care to high risk heart attack patients by awarding the mission lifeline gold performance achievement award for stemi care and silver performance achievement award for stemi care at walnut creek. John muir health's concord and walnut creek medical centers also received the gold plus achievement award for heart failure care, and the get with the guidelines platinum award for heart attack care. Both john muir health medical centers hold the highest level of accreditation from the society of chest pain centers and are designated as high-risk heart attack (stemi) receiving centers by the county department of emergency medical services.

women's and children's is the third largest program within john muir health. Achievements in 2014 included, (1) added midwives to ensure better outcomes for both mom and baby and decrease rate of early elective deliveries, (2) implemented and built order sets into epic to follow the ca maternal quality collaborative guidelines for the treatment of hypertension in pregnancy, (3) enhanced access to the region's best pediatrics specialties by adding additional specialist in orthopedics, neurology and gi. Recruited pediatrics subspecialist in endocrinology, neurosurgery and otolaryngology to meet ca children's standards for picu certification, (4) advanced facilities including level iii nicu, pediatric e. D. And pediatric outpatient infusion center. Developed "kid friendly" surgical experience, (5) network of proximate ambulatory care capabilities including imaging and surgery, 24/7 ed pediatric surgical coverage, onboard pediatric radiologist. (6)developed and implemented educational opportunities for community physicians in the areas of childhood obesity prevention and prevention of repetitive joint injuries in pediatrics.

john muir health neurosciences offers the most advanced techniques and technology to diagnose and treat neurological disorders of the brain and spine. The comprehensive programs available at john muir health include treatment for cerebrovascular diseases (e. G. Stroke, aneurysms), brain and spinal cord tumors, dementia (e. G. Alzheimer's), spine diseases, and neurological disorders. Neurosciences is comprised of healthcare professionals and medical staff specializing in neurology, neurosurgery, neurocritical care, neuroradiology, neuropsychology and rehabilitation to care for the diseases of the brain and spine. In 2014, the american heart association and the american stroke association recognized jmh as a get with the guidelines for stroke as a gold plus achievement award hospital, achieving 85% or higher adherence to all indicators for two or more consecutive 12 month intervals and at least 12 consecutive months of 75% or higher compliance with 5 or more get with the guidelines stroke quality measures to improve quality of patient care and outcomes. John muir health is a joint commission certified primary stroke center and had a total of 640 hospital discharges with a principal diagnosis of ischemic stroke, hemorrhagic stroke and transient ischemic attack. Jmh neurosciences participation in clinical research include irb approval for participation in mistie iii clinical research; minimally invasive surgery plus rt-pa for intracerebral hemorrhage evacuation. Mistie iii is funded by the national institute of neurological disorders and stroke (ninds), one of the national institutes of health (nih), under a cooperative aggrement (uo1). Jmh walnut creek is one of over 90 participating medical centers in the us, europe, israel, china and australia. The trial is led by john hopkins university and coordinated by the brain injury outcomes service (bios) in the department of neurology. John muir health provides the only inpatient rehabilatation unit in contra costa county and in 2014 received a 3-year accreditation from the commission on accreditation for rehabilitation facilities (carf) for comprehensive rehabilitation, stroke specialty and brain injury specialty which assures the public of jmh's commitment to continually enhance the quality of services and programs with a focus on the satisfaction of the persons served.