Scranton, April 16, 2012 – Geisinger-Community Medical Center has received the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines –Stroke Bronze Quality Achievement Award. The award recognizes Geisinger-Community Medical Center’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment according to nationally accepted standards and recommendations.In the past year, … [Read more...]

Press Ganey recently recognized Geisinger-Community Medical Center with its “Journey to High Performance” award for improving Emergency Department Overall Satisfaction Scores for the fourth quarter of 2011.For more than 25 years, Press Ganey has been the industry's recognized leader in health care performance improvement, working with more than 10,000 health care organizations nationwide, including 50 percent of all U.S hospitals, to improve clinical and business outcomes.Every area … [Read more...]

The Pennsylvania office of VHA Inc., the national health care alliance, has recognized Community Medical Center for demonstrating excellence for goal achievement in decrease in 30- day readmissions for heart failure patients. CMC participated in VHA Pennsylvania’s Rapid Adoption Network 3.0, focusing on reducing 30-day readmissions for heart failure. The certificate was presented to Community Medical Center for improving its 30-day readmission by more than 47 percent from its baseline … [Read more...]

Jermyn’s Jeffrey Zabielski, RN, honoredSCRANTON, PA - The Pennsylvania Association of PeriAnesthesia Nurses has awarded Community Medical Center’s Jeffrey Zabielski, RN, of Jermyn, its Patient Advocate Award for 2011. The award recognizes individuals who demonstrate extraordinary clinical expertise, compassion, commitment, initiative and problem solving skills in an effort to intervene on a patient’s or family’s behalf.“Jeff is an energetic, committed, caring and all-around … [Read more...]