Memorial Hospital receives VHA Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence
Jasper – VHA Inc., a national health care network, has given Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center a 2013 VHA Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence, honoring the hospital for achieving national performance standards for clinical quality, safety and patient experience.
VHA is a national network of more than 1,350 not-for-profit hospital systems and 72,000 non-acute facilities that work together to achieve new levels of clinical performance and operational efficiency.
Memorial Hospital was one of 40 VHA member hospitals this year to receive a Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence. Winners were announced in May during VHA’s national meeting, the 2013 Navigating to Excellence Forum, held in Las Vegas, with the local award presentation taking place on July 15 at Memorial Hospital.
The VHA Leadership Award for Clinical Excellencerecognizes organizations that achieve top performance in care measures tracked by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Winners are selected based on a composite score consisting of three elements: 1) Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Total Performance Score, which includes Core Measures and the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Services (HCAHPS) survey results; 2) 30-day readmission rates; and 3) Medicare cost data.
“This award is a tribute to the excellent quality of our physicians and staff working together as a team to continually improve the care we give our patients each and every day,” said Ray Snowden, Board Chairperson and President and CEO of Memorial Hospital. “It is only through their dedication and adherence to our mission of ‘Being for Others’ that such an honor is achieved. I’m very proud of our staff.”
Steve Miff, PhD, VHA’s Senior Vice President for Clinical and Care Delivery Solutions stated, “The leaders and staff in these organizations have shown their dedication to providing not only consistently high levels of clinical care but also continually improving that performance to produce better outcomes for their patients. Since the passing of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the health care industry has moved quickly to establish and meet performance quality metrics and align care protocol. We are especially proud of these VHA organizations for exceptional performance against national key indicators.”
By recognizing institutions for their commitment and achievements, VHA hopes that other health systems will apply these leading practices in their own organizations to further enhance the overall level of quality in our nation’s health care system.
