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Article Date: 11/05/2007

The Joint Commission recipients of 2007 Ernest Amory Codman Awards
The Joint Commission announced this year’s organization and individual recipients of the 11th Annual Ernest Amory Codman Award to recognize excellence in the use of outcomes measurement to achieve improvements in the quality and safety of health care. The Codman Award, established in 1996, is the first national health care award that recognizes excellence in performance measurement. The award recipients in the following categories are:
Behavioral Health Care: Addiction Treatment Services of Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland.
Hospital: Broward General Medical Center, Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Christiana Care Health Services, Wilmington, Delaware; and Saint Joseph Healthcare, Lexington, Kentucky.
Long Term Care: Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center and Home, Staten Island, New York.
Multiple Organization: Seton Family of Hospitals, Austin, Texas.
Individual: John E. Wennberg, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Center for Evaluative Clinical Services at Dartmouth Medical School in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
Named for the physician regarded in health care as the “father of outcomes measurement,” the Ernest Amory Codman Award showcases the effective use of performance measurement by health care organizations to improve the quality and safety of health care. The Joint Commission also recognizes an individual who has played a significant leadership role in promoting the use of performance measures to improve health care services, or who has made major contributions to the development and testing of performance measures or the science and art of quality improvement. A panel of national experts in quality measurement and improvement selected the seven recipients of the 2007 Awards. The awards will be formally presented on November 12 during The Joint Commission and Joint Commission Resources’ Annual Conference on Quality and Safety in Chicago.

Website Address: http://www.jointcommission.org

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