
Jefferson Health, with 14 hospitals (seven are Magnet designated by the ANCC for nursing excellence) and 40+ outpatient and urgent care locations, offers a broad range of primary and complex, highly specialized care that touches the lives of more than four million patients annually. Jefferson (Philadelphia University + Thomas Jefferson University) provides more than 8,400 full and part-time students from nearly 40 states and 40 countries with 21st century professional education. Jefferson Health delivers state of the art healthcare services to patients throughout the Delaware Valley and southern New Jersey. For details on sources, click here.Coordinates staffing under the guidelines of the Generic Nursing Standards as directed by nurse managers, nursing supervisors, clinical directors and Vice President(s) of Clinical Operations at all campuses. Higher scores indicate more effective communication than lower scores. Educating patients on the steps they need to take during their recovery at home reduces the chances that a patient will need to be readmitted to the hospital.īased on a scale of zero-100, this number represents a comparison of patients’ perspectives of how effectively this hospital communicated with patients about the help they would need after discharge relative to patients’ perspectives of how effectively other hospitals communicated with their patients. The measure also summarizes how often patients reported that they were given written information about symptoms or health problems to watch for during their recovery. The Communication about Discharge measure summarizes how well the hospital staff communicated with patients about the help they would need at home after leaving the hospital. Patients’ perspectives of care are an important part of patient safety.
