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Cottage Health’s Quality Vision

We are committed to ensuring superior health care outcomes for all patients.

Cottage Health is committed to ensuring superior health care outcomes for all patients. We use a multi-disciplinary approach to implement evidenced based medical care using valid data and proven research. Each Cottage hospital’s Quality and Patient Safety Committee monitors performance data, assesses the impact and quality of current clinical programs, and establishes goals for ongoing improvement.

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Shared Responsibility

We believe quality is the responsibility of every member of the Cottage Health.

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Patient Focused

We will always be patient focused in order to deliver safe, cost effective, high quality medical care to every individual who comes for our services.

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Eliminate Preventable Errors

We strive to eliminate preventable patient care errors in our healthcare delivery system by utilizing a multi-disciplinary panel including physicians, nurses, and administration leaders.

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Value Teamwork

We recognize and emphasize the value of teamwork and the necessity of engaging frontline care providers to improve patient care outcomes.

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Assess Data

We use data that is validated, accurate, and benchmarked against national standards.


Contact Us

We hope this site is helpful to make informed healthcare decisions. We would like to hear from you. If you have a question or suggestion regarding how to make this more useful please email Cottage Health Quality.

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