View a list of recipients of Qualis Health's Award of Excellence in Healthcare Quality for the following years:
2007/2008
Idaho
Caribou Memorial Hospital (Soda Springs)
For successfully improving patient outcomes by improving nurse professionalism, collaboration, morale, and reducing turnover by implementing a Shared Governance in the Nursing Department.
Helping Hands Home Health (Pocatello)
For outstanding work in the reduction of acute care hospitalizations by implementing an effective referral and assessment process to identify ‘high risk’ patients, and improving communication between the different disciplines.
Pocatello Family Medicine (Pocatello)
For successfully improving their quality and patient safety processes through implementation of a “Quality of Culture Project.” As a result of their work, Pocatello Family Medicine has been singled out by Medicare and Idaho Medicaid as one of the few in the nation that can readily generate reliable clinic data.
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (Boise)
For outstanding work in creating a multidisciplinary diabetes management plan which enables the health care team to provide quality care to patients with diabetes by promoting optimal glycemic control.
For successfully improving patient safety by utilizing a team collaborative effort to hospital MRSA reduction demonstrated by multiple approaches including implementing an active surveillance program for MRSA.
Trinity Mission Health and Rehab of Holly, LP (Nampa)
For outstanding work in formulating and implementing a team approach to wound management, thus reducing the incidence of pressure sores, stasis ulcers, and non-pressure sores.
Washington
Hillcrest Manor and Rehabilitation Center (Sunnyside)
The Effect of Staff Turnover and Absenteeism on Elder Care
Lincoln Hospital (Davenport), Northwest MedStar (Spokane Valley), and Sacred Heart Medical Center (Spokane)
AMI Level 1 Cardiac Protocol
Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories (PAML) (Spokane)
Driving Quality Through Implementation of Unique Middleware Solutions
Providence Hospice and Home Care of Snohomish County (Everett)
Bereavement Counseling Intern Program
Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital (Spokane)
Eliminating Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) in the PICU
Walla Walla General Hospital (Walla Walla)
Achieving Top Performance with Core Measures
To read more about the 2008 Award of Excellence in Healthcare Quality winners of Washington, click here.
2006
Idaho
Caribou Memorial Living Center (Soda Springs)
Prevention of Pressure Ulcers
Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center (Idaho Falls)
Reducing the Occurrence of Methicillin Resistant Staph Aureus (MRSA)
Idaho Physicians Clinic (Boise)
Avoiding Costly Hospitalizations by Increasing Access to Physician Services
Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (Boise)
Reducing Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) by Identifying High Risk Patients
St. Joseph Regional Medical Center Home Health (Lewiston)
Reduction of Acute Care Hospitalization
Walter Knox Memorial Hospital (Emmett)
Implementing a Staff Customer Service Program
Washington
Dayton General Hospital (Dayton)
Development of a Systems Approach to Medication Reconciliation
Group Health Cooperative (Seattle)
Implementing a Web-based System for Reporting Errors and Unusual Occurrences
Lance Heineccius (Seattle)
Helping Launch the Puget Sound Health Alliance
Memorial Home Care Services (Yakima)
Reduction of Acute Care Re-hospitalization
Multicare Health System (Tacoma)
Improvement of Care for Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
Regency at Puyallup Rehabilitation Center (Puyallup)
Reduction of Pressure Ulcers in High Risk Nursing Home Residents
2005
Idaho
Clearwater Health and Rehabilitation (Orofino)
Improving Quality of Care Through Better Data Collection
Guardian Home Care and Hospice (Nampa)
Reducing Avoidable Acute Care Hospitalization
Magic Valley Regional Medical Center (Twin Falls)
Developing a Comprehensive Patient Relations Program to Improve Service
Mercy Medical Center (Nampa)
Improving Clinical Quality with Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) Methodology
St. Joseph Regional Medical Center Home Health (Lewiston)
Implementing a Multi-Disciplinary Approach to Reducing Pain
Washington
Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center (Seattle)
A Multidisciplinary Parenteral Nutrition Ordering Model
Northwest Kidney Centers (Seattle)
Correction of Metabolic Acidosis
Providence Hospice & Home Care of Snohomish County (Everett)
Improvement in Wound Status
Sound Family Medicine (Puyallup)
EMR and Database Use in a Hypertension Improvement Project
Swedish Physicians (Seattle)
Targeting Diabetes with the Chronic Care Model
