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For CareScience: Andrea Lashnits
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Putnam General Hospital Named 2006 CareScience™ Select Practice National Quality Leader in Category of Pneumonia
Award Recognizes Top 1% of Hospitals for
Outstanding Quality of Care Delivered to Patients
January 2, 2007 – Putnam General Hospital today announced that it was named as a 2006 CareScience Select Practice National Quality Leader in the category of Pneumonia. The Hospital has achieved superior performance in care of patients in the pneumonia disease group. The recognition of these accomplishments was published in the 2006 CareScience Select Practice National Quality Leader Report.
As a recipient of the 2006 Select Practice Quality Leader award, Putnam General Hospital is part of an elite group of the top 1% performers across the 4,500 acute care hospitals in the United States, as identified by the CareScience™ Select Practice methodology, which utilizes both quality and efficiency indices to track a hospital’s performance.
Select Practice designations are determined by rigorous analysis of MedPar data. Unlike other national hospital rankings, which rely heavily on financially-based measures and/or subjective opinions of a hospital’s reputation, CareScience analysis uses only quantifiable data to determine excellence in clinical quality and efficiency. This data includes 16 different clinical indicators – more than any other national quality award or designation. Hospitals must be in the top 1% of their index to attain recognition. All acute care inpatient facilities in the United States are eligible to compete for the award.
“Putnam General Hospital’s inclusion in the CareScience 2006 Select Practice Leader Report confirms the organization’s dedication and success in implementing high quality patient care,” said Richard Bankowitz, MD, MBA, vice president and medical director, CareScience. “We believe the CareScience Select Practice National Quality Leader award recipient represent the country’s very best healthcare facilities for patient care. Based on Putnam General’s performance on objective measures of clinical outcomes and efficiencies in the area of pneumonia, we are therefore pleased to award them with a Select Practice designation.”
Additional information on the CareScience Select Practice Awards and related methodology can be found at www.carescience.com/newsevents/selectpractice/index.cfm.
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