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Recent Publicity Received
by 2006 Louisiana Hospital Quality Award
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River
Parishes Hospital Honored with Quality Award
BMH gets Louisiana
Hospital Quality award
(Beauregard Memorial Hospital)
St. Charles Parish
Hospital Awarded for Quality
Official: UMC exceeding
standards
(University Medical Center,
Lafayette)
Bogalusa Medical
Center receives Gold Level award
LSU's top doc makes six-month
visit to Bogalusa |
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River Parishes Hospital Honored with Quality
Award
By KEVIN CHIRI
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
8:25 AM CDT
Editor and Publisher
LAPLACE - River Parishes Hospital
CEO Scott Boudreaux has constantly emphasized
the importance of patient care as the top
priority for the St. John health care facility,
since he took over as director just over two
years ago. |
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Pictured from left are: Scott Boudreaux, CEO,
Kat Bocz, RN, CNO, Syl Pawol, RN, Quality
Manager, Sue Sihvonen, RN, QI Specialist with
LHCR, Diane Abbondante, RN, Director of Surgical
Services, and Trina Calhoun, RN, Risk Manager. |
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This past week, RPH received some state
recognition confirming the improvement in that
area, as they were one of only 51 hospitals in
the state to receive the Silver Level 2006
Louisiana Hospital Quality Award.
The award is presented by the Louisiana Health
Care Review, Inc., which is the Medicare Quality
Improvement Organization for Louisiana.
Hospitals named for the Silver Level honor must
show quality initiatives aimed at improving
patient care in four different areas: Heart
Attacks, Heart Failure, Pneumonia and Surgical
Care.
There are between 20 and 30 standards to meet in
each area, and River Parishes met or exceeded
those national standards in patient care.
“This just shows what a
great job our employees are doing in trying to
provide the best patient care we can,” Boudreaux
noted. “We put these measures in place two years
ago, and I think it shows we are very serious
about providing the best patient care we can.”
The clinical topics measured for the awards have
been designated as national health care
priorities by the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services. Staff members from River
Parishes Hospital have been working with quality
improvement specialists from Louisiana Health
Care Review to use proven, evidence-based
practices to improve care for their patients.
“Louisiana Health Care Review is pleased to
recognize River Parishes Hospital for achieving
measured improvement in patient care. More
importantly, we know that utilizing proven
standards of care can save lives, and we applaud
the hospital's team in their dedication to
quality patient care for the people of the River
Parishes area,” said LHCR Chief Executive
Officer Gary Curtis.
Copyright © 2007L'Observateur.
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Tuesday, May
1, 2007 8:13 AM CDT
DeRIDDER -
Beauregard Memorial Hospital
has received the Gold Level
2006 Louisiana Hospital
Quality Award presented by
Louisiana Health Care
Review, Inc., the Medicare
Quality Improvement
Organization for Louisiana.
With this award BMH has been
recognized for improving the
quality of health care given
to their patients in three
of four clinical areas, and
is one of only 21 hospitals
in the state to achieve this
level of recognition or
higher.
The Hospital Quality
Award honors Louisiana
hospitals that are
performing quality
initiatives aimed at
improving patient care in
the hospital setting.
This is the second year
these awards have been
presented.
The award recognizes those
facilities that are actively
engaged in improving care in
one or more of the following
areas: Acute Myocardial
Infarction (Heart Attack),
Heart Failure, Pneumonia,
Surgical Care.
The clinical topics
measured for the awards have
been designated as national
health care priorities by
the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid Services.
Staff members from
Beauregard Memorial Hospital
have been working with
quality improvement
specialists from Louisiana
Health Care Review, Inc. to
use proven, evidence-based
practices to improve care
for their patients.
“Louisiana Health Care
Review is pleased to
recognize hospitals such as
Beauregard Memorial Hospital
for achieving measured
improvement in patient
care,” LHCR Chief Executive
Officer Gary Curtis said.
“More importantly, we know
that utilizing proven
standards of care can save
lives and we applaud the
work of these hospital teams
in their dedication to
quality patient care for the
people of their community.
As the Medicare Quality
Improvement Organization for
Louisiana we are committed
to working with providers in
all health care settings to
improve the health and
health care of Louisianans.”
“Our staff
is dedicated to providing
the very best in patient
care, and our efforts have
been enhanced through our
quality improvement
partnerships with LHCR,” Ted
Badger, CHE, Chief Executive
Officer at Beauregard
Memorial Hospital said. “We
are extremely proud to be a
recipient of this
distinguished award.”
Copyright © 2007 Beauregard
Daily News, a Gatehouse
Media paper
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Wednesday, April 25,
2007
HOSPITAL QUALITY AWARD
Louisiana Heart Hospital
was among 71 hospitals in
Louisiana to earn the 2006
Louisiana Hospital Quality
Award, presented by
Louisiana Health Care Review
Inc., the Medicare Quality
Improvement Organization for
Louisiana. Recognizing LHH's
achievement for being in the
highest ranks among all
hospitals in the state in
three Core Measures, the
hospital was presented with
a Gold Award.
This is the second year
LHCR has presented this
award, which recognizes
hospitals for improving the
quality of health care given
to their patients in the
hospital setting. LHH is
also one of only four
hospitals in Louisiana to
earn the Hospital Quality
Award in both years (the
other hospitals: Lincoln
General Hospital, CHRISTUS
St. Frances Cabrini Hospital
and Iberia Medical Center).
LHH is the only hospital in
the greater New Orleans
region to earn this
distinction for both years.
"Our entire team, from
physicians to clinical and
support staff, knows that
using proven standards of
care can save lives. I am
very proud of the work of
our team to achieve these
standards, which have
already been recognized in
other significant awards
since 2006," said LHH Chief
Executive Officer Bill Fox.
"It's all about their
dedication to quality
patient care for the people
of our communities. Every
life we save or improve
every day proves the
validity of our founding
physicians' vision of how
care should be delivered
with skill, compassion and a
focused, personal touch."
The 2006 award recognizes
hospitals at four different
levels of quality
improvement. Specifically,
it recognizes facilities
achieving significant,
quantifiable improvement in
the clinical areas of acute
myocardial infarction (heart
attack), heart failure,
pneumonia, and surgical
care. LHH was one of 17
hospitals earning a Gold
Award.
The clinical topics
measured for the awards have
been designated as national
health care priorities by
the Centers for Medicare &
Medicaid Services (CMS).
Hospitals in Louisiana and
across the country have been
partnering with their
quality improvement
organizations to use proven,
evidence-based practices to
improve care for their
patients. As the Medicare
Quality Improvement
Organization for Louisiana,
LHCR contracts with CMS to
work directly with
providers, offering tools,
information and data, and
other expert resources that
can improve the quality of
health care delivered in
hospitals, nursing homes and
physician offices, as well
as the care given by home
health agencies.
For the first time last
year, hospitals across the
nation began publicly
reporting data on the care
given in their facilities.
All eligible hospitals in
Louisiana are reporting this
data, which can be accessed
at
www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov.
Published on NOLA.com
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
2:59 p.m.
Published in The
Times-Picayune Thursday,
April 26, 2007
Louisiana Health Care
Review Quality Improvement
Specialist Sue Sihvonen,
registered nurse, third from
right, presents a 2006
Louisiana Hospital Quality
Award Gold Award to
Louisiana Heart Hospital
officials, from left,
Performance Improvement
Coordinator Leslie Kelt,
Vice President Business
Development Leif Pedersen,
Emergency Room Team Leader
Tania Loumiet, Nurse
Practitioner Linda Melerine,
Resource Nurse Ken Browne,
and Assistant Clinical Team
Leader Julie Diodene.
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St.
Charles Parish Hospital Awarded
for Quality
Wednesday,
April 18, 2007 LULING - St. Charles
Parish Hospital has received the Silver Level
2006 Hospital Quality Award, presented by
Louisiana Health Care Review, Inc. (LHCR), the
Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for
Louisiana. With this award, St. Charles Parish
Hospital has been recognized for improving
the quality of health care given to their
patient in two |
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Pictured from
left to right are: Minh-Trang Tran, Director of
Health Information Management, Karen Guillot,
Chief Operating Officer, Martin A. Belanger,
M.D., Chief of Medical Staff, Sue Sihvonen, RN,
Quality Improvement Specialist for LHCR, Sallie
Herrle, Director of Quality Management, and Fred
Martinez, Jr., Chief Executive Officer. |
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of four designated clinical areas, and is one of
only 51 hospitals in the state to achieve this
level of recognition or higher. The Hospital
Quality Award honors hospitals that are
performing quality initiatives aimed at
improving patient care in the hospital setting.
This is the second year these awards have been
presented. The award recognizes St. Charles
Parish Hospital for actively improving care in
the area of Acute Myocardial Infarction (Heart
Attack) and Pneumonia. The clinical topics
measured for these awards have been designated
as national health care priorities by the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
"As the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Louisiana,
we are committed to working with providers in all health care
settings to improve the health and health care of Louisianans,"
stated LHCR Chief Executive Officer, Gary Curtis.
"The medical staff of St. Charles Parish Hospital is dedicated to
providing the very best in patient care and our efforts have been
enhanced through our quality improvement partnership with LHCR.
We are extremely proud to be a recipient of these distinguished
awards," said Fred Martinez, Jr., St. Charles Parish Hospital Chief
Executive Officer.
To learn more about St. Charles Parish Hospital, visit the
hospital web site at: www.stch.net.
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Official: UMC exceeding standards |
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Marsha Sills
msills@theadvertiser.com
LAFAYETTE - Vehicles spill over parking pavement
and modular buildings hold the overflow of
services that can no longer be contained inside
University Medical Center.
Many choose to judge the level of care given
by the hospitals by what they see on the
outside, but what goes on within the walls often
is overlooked, said Dr. Michael Kaiser,
associate chief medical officer for the LSU
Health Care Services Division.
UMC is one of eight hospitals within the public
hospital system managed by LSU Health Care
Services Division.
On Tuesday, Kaiser visited UMC to meet with
staff about the hospital's progress. Since LSU
took over the public hospitals in the state 10
years ago, the hospitals have been tracking the
management of chronic diseases such as diabetes.
Earlier this year, UMC's disease management
clinic was recognized by the system for its
improvements in patient outcomes. The hospital
also received a gold level Louisiana Hospital
Quality Award for its performance from the
Louisiana Health Care Review, the Medicare
Quality Improvement Organization for Louisiana.
Kaiser shared system data that showed LSU
hospitals are outpacing national and state
hospital averages.
Kaiser said data that points to Louisiana as
ranked at the bottom of health-care rankings
often use Medicare data to tabulate the
rankings.
"Only about 8 percent of patients receiving
care in our hospitals are Medicare patients,"
Kaiser said. "If you look at separate data under
the same methodology, our hospitals would be
fourth in the nation."
Some of that data includes quality indicators
in treating acute myocardial infarction, in
which UMC and two other LSU hospitals exceeded
the state average, according to 2005 data from
the Louisiana Hospital Association Kaiser
presented.
The system is focusing more on its smoking
cessation programs. Now, patients who are
admitted are asked about their smoking behavior
to track how well their programs are working.
The system has made efforts to improve its
cancer screening measures in the past five
years.
The Daily Advertiser,
Lafayette, LA, April 18, 2007 |
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Bogalusa
Medical Center receives Gold Level award
DAILY NEWS Staff Report
BATON ROUGE - The Louisiana State University Bogalusa
Medical Center and four other hospitals in the LSU system
received awards from the Louisiana Health Care Review, Inc.,
recently.
The hospitals each picked up a 2006 Louisiana Hospital
Quality Award for their commitment to sustained performance
and/or improvement in providing quality care to patients,
according to a press release from the LSU Health Care
Services Division.
BMC and the University Medical Center in Lafayette each
received a Gold Level award for improvement in three of four
clinical areas: acute myocardial infarction (heart attack),
heart failure, community-acquired pneumonia and surgical
care. Only 17 Louisiana hospitals received the gold level
award. BMC and UMC received the award for improvement in
care for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and
pneumonia.
Huey P. Long Medical Center (HPLMC) in Pineville and
Walter Olin Moss Regional Medical Center (WOMRMC) in Lake
Charles received the Silver Level awards. Leonard J. Chabert
Medical Center in Houma received a Bronze Level award.
LHCR, the Medicare quality improvement organization for
Louisiana, annually gives the award to hospitals. The
highest level award is platinum.
"The Louisiana Hospital Quality Award for five LSU
hospitals is another indicator that LSU hospitals provide
quality care that is comparable to any hospital in the
state," said Dr. Michael K. Butler, chief medical officer
for the LSU Health Care Services Division. "This outside
organization reviewed the proven evidenced-based practices
that we provide to Medicare patients and found that our
hospitals are due this recognition of the highest caliber,"
he said.
LHCR CEO Gary Curtis echoed Dr. Butler's sentiments.
"Louisiana Health Care Review is pleased to recognize
hospitals such as those of LSU for achieving measured
improvement in patient care," he said. "More importantly, we
know that utilizing proven standards of care can save lives,
and we applaud the work of these hospital teams in their
dedication to quality patient care for the people of their
community."
The clinical areas measured for the awards have been
designated as national health care priorities by the Centers
for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Hospitals in Louisiana
and nationwide have been partnering with their quality
improvement organizations to use proven, evidence-based
practices to improve care for their patients.
"We know that using proven standards of care can save
lives, and we applaud the work of these hospital teams,"
Curtis said. "As the Medicare quality improvement
organization for Louisiana, we continue to work with our
partners to ensure that every person gets the right care at
the right time every time."
For more information, visit
www.lhcr.org.
Copyright © 2007 Bogalusa Daily News
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