Jewish Hospital receives Commendation Award from Commission on Cancer;

For Immediate Release: 11/14/2006

(Louisville, KY) – The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons has granted Jewish Hospital Three-Year Approval with Commendations for their Cancer Program.  In addition, Jewish Hospital & St. Mary’s HealthCare opened a Lung Cancer Program multidisciplinary.

The award recognizes the significant commitment by the administration, staff and physicians for providing high quality cancer care to Jewish Hospital patients and in exceeding the standards set by the CoC Approvals Program.  In addition to meeting the basic standards of the CoC Approvals Program, Jewish Hospital also excelled in a number of areas including outcome analysis, quality of National Cancer Data Base data submission, clinical trials accrual, prevention and early detection.

“This recognition is a wonderful testament to the care that our medical staff and team members provide to our patients each day,” said Tim Jarm, president/CEO of Jewish Hospital.  “Our goal, as a leading regional referral center, is to expand cancer treatment services to the community and this award certainly reinforces our commitment.”

November is lung cancer awareness month and Jewish Hospital and St. Mary’s HealthCare performs the highest volume of lung cancer surgeries in the region.  The Lung Cancer Program coordinates the delivery of services for patients with lung cancer, esophageal cancer and other thoracic malignancies.  The program has opened a multidisciplinary clinic this month to better service lung cancer patients.  Physicians are actively involved with clinical research and clinical trial development in thoracic oncology, bringing patients opportunities for medical treatments that may not otherwise be available to them.

ABOUT JHSMH
Jewish Hospital & St. Mary's HealthCare (JHSMH) is a regional health care network that includes 70 health care facilities and 1,900 patients beds in Kentucky and southern Indiana.  The merger of Jewish Hospital HealthCare Services and CARITAS Health Services to form JHSMH combines the strength and honors the heritages of the two organizations to provide a complete array of health care services to this region and beyond, including: hospitals, emergency air ambulance services, outpatient care, nursing home care, occupational health, psychiatric care and rehab medicine.  JHSMH provides home health care to families in 41 Kentucky and southern Indiana counties, occupational health mobile services to 30 Kentucky counties and employs a network of physician practices that provide both primary and specialty medical care.  The organization employs more than 8,100 people.

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