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National Hospitals Recognized for Excellence in Quality of Patient Care and Efficiency

Posted on: Friday, 19 October 2007, 09:00 CDT

The Premier healthcare alliance today honored 49 hospitals from across the country with the 2007 Premier | CareScience Select Practice National Quality Award for superior patient outcomes in both quality and efficiency of care.

The Select Practice National Quality Award recognizes the top 1 percent of the more than 4,700 acute care inpatient facilities in the United States eligible to receive the award. Winners did not apply for the award, but instead were identified as a top performer in quality and efficiency among all acute care facilities in the MEDPAR 2005 data, regardless of bed size or teaching status.

"We are pleased to recognize this select group of hospitals offering the highest quality and most efficient patient care in the nation," said Richard A Bankowitz, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.P., vice president and medical director for Premier Healthcare Informatics. "These hospitals represent the country's elite healthcare facilities for patient care based on performance using objective measures of clinical outcomes and efficiencies."

Select Practice data includes 16 different clinically relevant indicators of risk, more than any other national quality award or designation. The quality index is calculated by combining the outcome deviations for mortality, morbidity and complications into a single quality measure for each facility. The combined quality and efficiency ratings are used to determine the award recipients.

Additional information about the Premier | CareScience Select Practice National Quality Award and related methodology can be found at: http://www.premierinc.com/about/news/awards/index.jsp.

Winners of the 2007 Premier | CareScience Select Practice National Quality Award are:

Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center/Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Boston, Massachusetts

Bethesda North Hospital/Cincinnati, Ohio

Caritas Carney Hospital/Dorchester, Massachusetts

Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center/Boston, Massachusetts

Centra Health/Lynchburg, Virginia

Chestnut Hill Hospital/Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Cleveland Clinic Florida/ Weston, Florida

Community Hospital of Ottawa/Ottawa, Illinois

Day Kimball Hospital/Putnam, Connecticut

Desert Valley Hospital/Victorville, California

DuBois Regional Medical Center/DuBois, Pennsylvania

Faulkner Hospital/Boston, Massachusetts

Griffin Hospital/Derby, Connecticut

Hamot Medical Center/Erie, Pennsylvania

Harlan ARH Hospital/Harlan, Kentucky

Harris Methodist Walls Regional Hospital/Cleburne, Texas

Holy Family Memorial/Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Innovis Health Hospital/Fargo, North Dakota

John Dempsey Hospital/Farmington, Connecticut

Joint Township District Memorial Hospital/St. Marys, Ohio

Lahey Clinic Medical Center/Burlington, Massachusetts

Lake Hospital System/Painesville, Ohio

Lake Wales Medical Center/Lake Wales, Florida

Lakeland Regional Medical Center/St. Joseph, Michigan

Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center/Jasper, Indiana

Memorial Hospital of Carbondale/Carbondale, Illinois

Mercy Hospital Cadillac/Cadillac, Michigan

Mercy Medical Center/Springfield, Ohio

Mercy Medical Center/Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Mercy Medical Center -- North Iowa/Mason City, Iowa

MetroHealth Medical Center/Cleveland, Ohio

Northeast Regional Medical Center/Kirksville, Missouri

Providence Health Center/Waco, Texas

Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center/Mattoon, Illinois

Skaggs Community Health Center/Branson, Missouri

SSM DePaul Health Center/Bridgeton, Missouri

SSM St. Joseph Health Center/St. Charles, Missouri

SSM St. Mary's Health Center/St. Louis, Missouri

St. Claire Regional Medical Center/Morehead, Kentucky

St. Elizabeth Hospital/Appleton, Wisconsin

St. Mark's Hospital/Salt Lake City, Utah

St. Mary Medical Center/Walla Walla, Washington

St. Vincent Charity Hospital/Cleveland, Ohio

Trinity Medical Center -- West Campus/Rock Island, Illinois

UPMC St. Margaret/Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Villages Regional Medical Center/The Villages, Florida

Willis-Knighton Bossier Health Center/Bossier City, Louisiana

Winchester Hospital/Winchester, Massachusetts

About Premier Inc., 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient

Serving 1,700 hospitals and more than 48,500 other healthcare sites, Premier is the largest healthcare alliance in the United States dedicated to improving patient outcomes while safely reducing the cost of care. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates one of the nation's largest healthcare purchasing networks, the most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information and one of the largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups in healthcare. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C., Philadelphia, and Washington. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.

Source: Business Wire

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