Our Commitment to Quality

While recognition such as this reflects external affirmation of the work we do here, true measures of how we are doing are successful patient outcomes and positive patient experiences with Loyola. We have long been committed to the quality of care and safety of our patients, and have a long history of focusing on ensuring successful patient outcomes.

We prioritize and coordinate performance improvement activities across the entire institution through our Center for Clinical Effectiveness, utilizing state-of-the-art quality and safety improvement tools and communicating results of performance improvement work both within Loyola and to consumer, health-care and academic audiences. In fact, quality improvement has become an integral part of our culture. That's important because the quality of a hospital is formed not only by a skilled, experienced team of professionals, but also by the system of operational processes and the collective experience of all those working in tandem. We have documented so many successes, that we have become somewhat of a 'poster child' for the University HealthSystem Consortium, which routinely refers representatives from other university health systems to Loyola to see how it is done.

We Support the Hospital Report Card

Loyola supports Illinois Senate Bill 59 (The Hospital Report Card Act), the Federal Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act and the Hospital Quality Information Initiative - a national voluntary initiative to collect and report hospital quality performance information. The bill is intended to empower consumers by making quality information about hospitals available to the public. Scientific measurement is the only real basis for rating the quality of health care at any hospital. Surveys, polls and other recognition, although gratifying, are not complete assessments of the quality of health care.

We applaud the work of state and federal legislators to develop patient safety standards and a quality tracking system.

Our Quality Promise

At Loyola, we also believe quality goes beyond successful surgical procedures or courses of medical treatment. Quality includes how we treat our patients and their families. We invite you to visit our Web site at www.luhs.org/quality to find out more about quality issues and our work at Loyola.

Anthony L. Barbato, M.D., President & CEO,  Loyola University Health System

Quality Experts on LUHS

"Loyola University Health System and its CEO, Dr. Anthony Barbato, are benchmarks for demonstrating commitment to health-care quality and patient safety. For them, it's not just a priority, it's part of the organization's culture."  Gail L. Warden, President & CEO, Henry Ford Health System

"The Joint Commission's national standards are intended to stimulate continuous and systematic improvement in an organization's performance and the outcomes of care. The community should be assured that Loyola University Health System is focusing on continuously raising quality and safety to higher levels."  Dennis O'Leary, M.D., President, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations

"Loyola's leaders have invested in the people, processes and infrastructure to create a high performing organization. This has, in turn, enabled LUHS to deliver health-care services to its patients in a safe and high quality manner."  David Burnett, M.D., Director, Clinical Practice Advancement Center University HealthSystem Consortium

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