Our Mission:
As a rural hospital, affiliated with BJC HealthCare, a leading nonprofit health-care delivery organization, Clay County Hospital is committed to improving the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve through leadership, education, innovation and excellence in medicine.
Goals:
To be the model among rural health-care delivery organizations as measured by our:
Outstanding patient advocacy and loyalty
Unsurpassed clinical quality and patient safety
Significant contribution to medical education
Exceptional employee satisfaction and workforce development
Excellent financial and operation management
Clay County Hospital is:
Patient Focused - We consider the patient in all that we do. Our patients are treated with compassion and respect and we earn their trust in every encounter they have with us. From the hospital floor to the business office, we work for our patient.
Disciplined - We take seriously our responsibility to be good stewards of all that is entrusted to us. We wisely manage our processes, assets and finances to ensure we have the resources to meet the health-care needs of our communities now and in the future.
Knowledge Driven - We are focused on innovation, creativity and the sharing of best practices to improve the delivery of healthcare. We identify and embrace research, new techniques, ideas and advancements and each of us is committed to continually improving our individual skills, knowledge and talents.
Motivated Leaders - We are solution-oriented. We continually seek ways to improve our organization to better serve our communities' health care needs and are committed to challenging each other to transform the delivery of health care services.
Clay County Hospital demonstrates:
Trust, dignity and respect - Everyone brings value and deserves the opportunities and supportive environments that allow them to reach their full professional potential. Leaders are to serve with humility, understanding and consideration for the value that our similarities and differences bring to the fulfillment of our mission. High ethical standards and behaviors - This is the foundation on which Clay County Hospital's success and reputation are built. Each of us is responsible for ensuring that our relationships with all our associates are honest, fair and uphold our corporate and individual integrity.
Teamwork and accountability - Working together allows us to accomplish more than we could individually.
Each of us is responsible for doing our best, keeping our commitments and sharing our knowledge to
advance the mission of Clay County Hospital and BJC HealthCare.
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Has accredited Clay County Hospital as a result of its demonstrating compliance to the highest national standards for safety and quality of care.
Joint Commission standards deal with an organization’s quality and safety-of-care issues and the safety of the environment in which care is provided. Clay County Hospital voluntarily submits to the evaluation of our compliance with nationwide hospital standards for excellence in patient care delivery. Joint Commission accreditation is your guarantee that Clay County Hospital is practicing constant quality monitoring to provide you with excellent health care.
Good information helps you make good decisions about your health and health care needs. In this section we report quantitative measures of the quality of the care we provide at Clay County Hospital.
These results show you how we measure up compared to national data and accepted care standards.
Most recent data as of June 2010. Current information represents latest six months of complete data unless otherwise indicated.
Service Excellence
Patient Satisfaction
HCAHPS
Patient Satisfaction
Infection Prevention
Infection Control
Heart Disease
Heart Attack
Heart Failure
Coronary Disease
Lung Disease
Pneumonia