St. Luke Hospital earns quality award
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News from Mountain-Pacific Quality Health
HELENA – Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, the Medicare Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for Montana, announced this year’s quality award winners during the annual conference held by the Montana Hospital Association (MHA) in Billings this month. Among the seven hospitals honored during the conference was St. Luke Community Healthcare in Ronan.
The hospitals were required to meet several criteria to be considered for the award, including implementing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Core Elements of outpatient antibiotic stewardship and taking steps to improve care transitions, medication safety, adult immunization rates and patient and family engagement and satisfaction.
“The application process for these awards is extensive,” said Mountain-Pacific’s Montana Director Christy Fuller. “Not only do these hospitals have to meet the criteria, but they have to assemble the documentation and data to demonstrate their high performance. Through both their commitment to providing quality care to their patients and their ability to demonstrate they’re providing that high-quality care, they’ve certainly earned this recognition.”
Mountain-Pacific also requires hospitals to demonstrate a commitment to quality from their leadership team.
“It’s got to start at the top,” Fuller explains. “Health care facilities cannot achieve excellence without leadership at the helm. And then it takes a lot of hard work, commitment and follow-through from the rest of the staff. From CEOs to direct care givers to environmental services, everyone has to be committed to putting the patient first to find success.”
