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Trinity's Total Joint Replacement Program Earns Joint Commission Gold Seal of Approval
Trinity’s total joint replacement program has earned the Gold Seal of Approval for health care quality from The Joint Commission. An independent, not-for-profit organization, The Joint Commission accredits and certifies more than 17,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. Joint Commission accreditation and certification is recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality that reflects an organization’s commitment to meeting certain performance standards. Trinity is the only hospital in the Quad-City region to earn this distinction.
The Joint Commission awarded Trinity its Disease-Specific Care Certification for knee and hip replacement surgery at both the Bettendorf and Rock Island locations, effective July 1. To become certified, hospitals must demonstrate three things: compliance with consensus-based national standards of care, effective use of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines to manage and optimize care and an organized approach to performance measurement and improvement activities. Disease-specific programs that successfully demonstrate compliance in all three areas are awarded certification for a two-year period.
