Mayo Clinic Quality Information - Arizona

Quality and safety information that is reported by a variety of organizations from the academic, private, and government sectors, and the popular media, are location-specific for hospitals and clinics. The information presented on this page is related to Mayo Clinic in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Ariz. including Mayo Clinic Hospital and the Mayo Clinic outpatient practice.

Links to Quality Reporting Web sites

Government and Regulatory Reports
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Quality Initiative gives high marks to Mayo hospitals for meeting or exceeding national quality measures. The Hospital Quality Initiative's goal is to improve the care provided by the nation's hospitals and to provide quality information to consumers and others.

• Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix, Ariz.

The Joint Commission (search for "Mayo Clinic")
The Joint Commission, an independent, not-for-profit organization, evaluates and accredits nearly 15,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. Since 1951, The Joint Commission has been the nation's predominant standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. The Joint Commission standards set performance expectations that affect the safety and quality of patient care. Participating organizations regularly undergo rigorous examinations by The Joint Commission teams that measure performance in key functional areas, such as patient rights, patient treatment, and infection control. If an organization does the right things and does them well, there is a strong likelihood that its patients will experience good outcomes. The Joint Commission develops its standards in consultation with health care experts, providers, measurement experts, purchasers and consumers. The Joint Commission's comprehensive accreditation process evaluates an organization's compliance with these standards and other accreditation requirements.

Academic Reports
The Dartmouth Atlas Project
Mayo Clinic provides highly efficient care for the chronically ill when compared with hospitals across the country. The Dartmouth Atlas Project, a study of 4,300 hospitals nationwide, describes how medical resources are distributed and used in the United States. The project offers comprehensive information and analysis about national, regional, and local markets, as well as individual hospitals and their affiliated physicians, in order to provide a basis for improving health and health systems. Through this analysis, the project has revealed significant variations in how health care is delivered across the United States. The project is run by the Center for the Evaluative Clinical Sciences at Dartmouth Medical School.

University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC)
UHC's Quality and Accountability Project named Mayo Clinic as one of its top performers in 2005. Top performers were identified according to broad-based composite measures of quality and safety. Formed in 1984, UHC is an alliance of academic health centers situated mainly in the United States. As a membership organization, UHC provides its 95 full members and 139 associate members with a variety of helpful resources aimed at improving performance levels in clinical, operational, and financial areas. A password is required to access most UHC information.