Surgical Care Quality Measures

The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) is a nationwide initiative to improve surgical care by reducing complications such as infection, heart attack, and blood clots. Hospitals around the country have joined in the SCIP partnership.

The SCIP initiative analyzes eight different surgical procedures:

• Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), also called open-heart surgery or bypass surgery
• Cardiac valve surgeries
• Hip replacement
• Knee replacement
• Vascular surgeries
• Hysterectomy
• Colon and rectal surgery
• General/other major surgeries

There are proven standards of care that reduce the risk of complications and help ensure a good quality of life after surgery. Those standards are listed in the first column of the table below. (Please note that not every measurement applies to every one of the eight surgeries analyzed.) The next columns show how well Memorial University Medical Center met these standards of care. A higher score is better.

Memorial Health Vs. National Average

The graphs below show how Memorial Health compares to other hospitals nationwide. The national average is pulled from all hospitals submitting data to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) during a specific time frame. The numbers below represent 2012 data. A higher number is better.