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Premier Healthcare Alliance Recognizes Nation's Top Hospitals for Commitment to High-Quality Patient Care, Operational Efficiency

Posted on: Tuesday, 19 June 2007, 12:00 CDT

The Premier Inc. healthcare alliance today will recognize the nation's top hospitals for their commitment to outstanding patient care and operational efficiency with the 2007 Premier Award for Quality. Premier will announce the 51 winners of the award at the Premier Annual Breakthroughs Conference and Exhibition in Orlando.

Awarded in six clinical areas, the Premier Award for Quality is based on quality and cost data regularly submitted to Premier for reporting and benchmarking purposes. The award is distinguished by its consideration of performance-based criteria, including clinical quality outcomes, clinical process indicators and resource utilization outcomes.

"Hospitals that win the Premier Award for Quality deliver the highest quality of care in a cost-effective way," said Stephanie Alexander, senior vice president and general manager of Premier Healthcare Informatics. "Congratulations to all of these hospitals, big and small, urban and rural, for delivering excellent patient care by using best practices and evidence-based decision- making."

Clinical areas considered for the 2007 Premier Award for Quality are Acute Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attacks), Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG), Heart Failure, Hip and/or Knee Replacement Procedures, Maternal and Neonatal Care (Pregnancy) and Pneumonia.

Three winners were picked in each category for each hospital type from an eligible pool of nearly 400 Premier hospitals. Hospitals that submitted data to Premier's Perspective™ database, the most comprehensive clinical, financial and operational comparative database in the nation, between October 2005 and September 2006 were eligible to receive the 2007 Premier Award for Quality.

2007 Award for Quality winners are:

Acute Myocardial Infarction (Heart Attack) Aurora Memorial Hospital of Burlington, Burlington, WI Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center, Sioux Falls, SD Duke Raleigh Hospital, Raleigh, NC Fairview Lakes Medical Center, Wyoming, MN Fairview Northland Regional Hospital, Princeton, MN Holy Family Hospital, Spokane, WA Memorial Medical Center, Springfield, IL Rochester General Hospital, Rochester, NY South Florida Baptist Hospital, Plant City, FL SSM St. Joseph Health Center, St. Charles, MO St. Joseph Medical Center, Kansas City, MO St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center, Missoula, MT Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Baton Rouge General Medical Center, Baton Rouge, LA Bayfront Medical Center, St. Petersburg, FL Bon Secours St. Francis Downtown, Greenville, SC Mission Hospital, Mission Viejo, CA Morton Plant Hospital, Clearwater, FL St. Joseph Medical Center, Kansas City, MO Heart Failure Aurora BayCare Medical Center, Green Bay, WI Aurora Memorial Hospital of Burlington, Burlington, WI Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center, Sheboygan, WI Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center, Sioux Falls, SD Bon Secours St. Francis Eastside, Greenville, SC Charleston Area Medical Center, Charleston, WV Fairview Northland Regional Hospital, Princeton, MN Harris Methodist Southwest Hospital, Fort Worth, TX Harris Methodist Walls Regional Hospital, Cleburne, TX SSM St. Mary's St. Louis, St. Louis, MO St. Francis Health Center, Topeka, KS St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo, OH Hip and/or Knee Replacement Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center Sheboygan, WI Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center, Sioux Falls, SD Highline Medical Center, Burien, WA Kettering Medical Center - Sycamore, Miamisburg, OH Meadville Medical Center, Meadville, PA St. Luke's - Allentown Campus, Allentown, PA Maternal and Neonatal Care Aurora Medical Center - Kenosha, Kenosha, WI Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center, Sheboygan, WI Lakeside Memorial Hospital, Brockport, NY Methodist Dallas Medical Center, Dallas, TX Methodist Hospital - South, Memphis, TN San Joaquin Community Hospital, Bakersfield, CA St. Barnabas Hospital, Bronx, NY Three Rivers Community Hospital, Grants Pass, OR Westlake Hospital, Melrose Park, IL Pneumonia Aurora Lakeland Medical Center, Elkhorn, WI Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center, Sioux Falls, SD Charles F. Kettering Memorial Hospital, Kettering, OH Kettering Medical Center - Sycamore, Miamisburg, OH Lapeer Regional Medical Center, Lapeer, MI Saint Francis Hospital at Broken Arrow, Broken Arrow, OK

About Premier, 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient

Serving 1,700 hospitals and more than 46,500 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 the nation's largest healthcare purchasing network, 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. and Washington. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.

Source: Business Wire

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