Five High-Performing Hospitals Receive National Award for Safe, Efficient and Effective Healthcare
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Five top performing hospitals will be nationally recognized tonight for reducing harm, mortality, readmissions and costs, while improving the patient experience and delivering evidence-based care. They include:
These organizations are the only hospitals to receive the Premier healthcare alliance’s . The award honors hospitals for achieving top performance in all six of the areas measured in the QUEST collaborative. Specifically, they’re being recognized for:
is a performance improvement collaborative of 333 hospitals working to make healthcare safer, more efficient and consistently effective. Approximately 330 QUEST members participating from October 1, 2011 through September 2012 were eligible for the QUEST Award for High-value Healthcare.
In addition, 16 finalists will also be recognized tonight for achieving top performance in any five of the six above areas. And, 38 QUEST members will receive a “Citation of Merit” for achieving top performance in any four of the six areas.
“Meeting the imperatives of better care at a lower cost isn’t easy for health systems to achieve on their own. It’s this type of collaboration and innovation that’s needed system-wide to build a sustainable future for healthcare and most importantly communities nationwide,” said Susan DeVore, Premier president and CEO. “Premier congratulates all of these hospitals for their outstanding performance.”
The hospitals will receive the awards during an awards ceremony being held on June 12 at Premier’s annual in San Antonio.
QUEST hospitals collaborate to:
Top performance thresholds were established at the top quartile of performance from a baseline period in all measures except cost of care, which was based on the median of the total inpatient cost per case mix adjusted discharge. Top performance analyses for each dimension varied depending on the unique measure calculation and methodology.
The nation’s leading hospitals created the QUEST collaborative to monitor and measure performance to ensure the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective care. In their first four and a half years, they’ve saved nearly 92,000 lives and $9 billion.
QUEST hospitals across 40 states continue to increase adherence to evidence-based care delivery, improve the patient experience and avoid harm while reducing mortality, cost of care and readmissions.
Premier is the nation’s largest performance improvement alliance of more than 2,800 U.S. hospitals and 95,000 other sites using the power of collaboration and technology to lead the transformation to coordinated, high-quality, cost-effective care. Owned by healthcare providers, Premier operates a leading purchasing network with more than $5 billion in annual savings. Premier also maintains clinical, financial and outcomes databases based on 1 in every 4 patient discharges. A world leader in measurably improving patient care, Premier has the largest performance improvement collaboratives in America, including one in partnership with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier also has an office in Washington. . Stay connected with Premier on , , and .