Martha’s Vineyard Hospital is a critical access, not-for-profit, community hospital on the island of Martha’s Vineyard. Committed to delivering high-quality healthcare to the community and its visitors, MVH provides acute, ambulatory, and specialty services either on-site or through its affiliation with Mass General Hospital.
Patients and visitors can find most information relating to their visit to Martha’s Vineyard Hospital right here.
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and Windemere Nursing & Rehabilitation Center are committed to providing coordinated, comprehensive and equitable healthcare to our entire community.
Your partnership strengthens our standing as the leading healthcare provider for our island community.
At Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, we understand that healing extends beyond a patient and their medical care. As such, we make sure there are places throughout the facility that promotes healing for everyone.
Join us in our mission to safeguard the health of Martha’s Vineyard residents (year-round, seasonal, and visitors) by providing high quality, accessible medical care in an atmosphere that fosters respect and compassion.
Martha's Vineyard Hospital (MVH) has an extensive internal network of processes that act as checkpoints and yardsticks for monitoring and measuring quality standards.
Government agencies, national sanctioning bodies, state associations, and private independent survey firms regularly evaluate MVH’s quality of care performance across a wide range of criteria. Some of these criteria go beyond just facts and figures to measure how well a hospital manages the interpersonal aspects of patient care.
In some instances, these evaluations are compared with performance data from other hospitals across the state or country. In other cases, sanctioning bodies establish quality and safety benchmarks, which hospitals are required to meet or exceed in order to earn and maintain accredited status.
Over 2,000
new patients join our practice every year.
The Joint Commission is an independent, not-for-profit body that established standards for quality and standards. The Joint Commission conducts regular, on-site surveys of hospitals, evaluating a wide range of criteria. The results of these surveys determine whether a hospital earns accreditation from the Joint Commission. This accreditation process includes unannounced surveys of hospitals which ensures that the hospital is always striving to be its best in terms of safety and quality of care.
The Joint Commission granted Martha’s Vineyard Hospital full accreditation for a 36-month cycle beginning in September 2018.
Hospitals are required to post an announcement that an accreditation survey may be imminent and to allow the public to provide input.
In December 2017, Martha’s Vineyard Hospital earned its designation as a Baby-Friendly Hospital through The Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) – a global program launched by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to encourage and recognize hospitals and birthing centers that offer an optimal level of care for infant feeding and mother/baby bonding. To be designated as a Baby-Friendly Hospital, MVH successfully completed a rigorous development, planning, and implementation schedule that culminated in an on-site assessment by BFHI in September, followed by the awarding of the designation this December. Baby-Friendly USA is the accrediting body for BFHI in the United States.
After a yearlong initiative, in cooperation with Massachusetts General Hospital/Mass General Brigham, the Primary Care Practices of Martha’s Vineyard Hospital have earned National Committee for Quality Assurance(NCQA) Recognition as a Patient Centered Medical Home.
This medical home model of care strives for continuous quality and patient experience improvement. Spearheaded by practice leadership and executed by care team physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, medical assistants and administrative support professionals, we set and meet goals to improve quality measures, improve resource stewardship, improve appointment availability and improve disparities in care services.
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital has been designated a Lung Cancer Screening Center by the American College of Radiology (ACR). The ACR Lung Cancer Screening Center designation is a voluntary program that recognizes facilities that have committed to practice safe, effective diagnostic care for individuals at the highest risk for lung cancer. In order to receive this elite distinction, facilities must be accredited by the ACR in computed tomography in the chest module, as well as undergo a rigorous assessment of its lung cancer screening protocol and infrastructure. Also required are procedures in place for follow-up patient care, such as counseling and smoking cessation programs.
633
residents of Martha’s Vineyard are employees of MVH; making us the largest employer on the island.
Supporting the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital culture of safety and the people behind it is a carefully designed system of processes that reinforce, cross-check and quality care initiatives’ status. These processes represent checklists and benchmarks that analyze the progress of maintaining and raising quality throughout every care aspect.
As a patient, you will have expectations and want reassurances about the quality of care you receive. Our quality processes are among the many ways to ensure we deliver both.
In our continuing effort to improve the quality of care we provide, we ask our patients to complete a survey about their experience at Martha’s Vineyard Hospital. This survey is conducted through email or via telephone.
At Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, our goal is to provide the best healthcare and medical service possible. Sometimes we exceed expectations. Now and then, however, we might not meet our patients’ or families’ expectations. We want to learn from your experience- good or bad. The Quality and Patient Safety Department welcomes your compliments or concerns. We are also here to help you resolve a problem.
Director of Quality and Patient Safety: 508-684-4553
Patient Advocacy:
Phone: 508-957-9497
Email: MVHPatientAdvocate@Partners.org
For more about Patient Advocacy, click here.
This information is reported to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health to ensure that Martha’s Vineyard Hospital does not exceed the maximum patient assignment of two patients per nurse.
July 1, 2019 – September 30, 2019
January 1, 2019 – March 31, 2019
October 1, 2018 – December 31, 2018
July 1, 2018 – September 30, 2018
January 1, 2018 – March 31, 2018
October 1, 2017 – December 31, 2017
1,412
inpatients were seen at MVH in 2019.
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Location
Martha’s Vineyard Hospital
1 Hospital Road
Oak Bluffs, MA 02557