UNION CITY - Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City (BMH-UC) has been recognized with the 2016 QUEST Award for High-value Healthcare from Premier Inc., a leading healthcare improvement company, for providing outstanding patient care.
Only 14 hospitals received finalist recognition for achieving top performance in any five of the six areas measured in Premier’s QUEST collaborative, including cost and efficiency, inpatient and outpatient evidence-based care, mortality, safety, patient experience and appropriate hospital use.
Announced during Premier’s annual Breakthroughs Conference and Exhibition, Baptist Memorial Hospital-Union City was the only hospital in Tennessee to receive the award.
Specifically, Baptist Union City is being recognized for the following: obtaining a mortality rate at least 15 percent less than expected, reducing the average cost of care to at least less than $6,870 per discharge, reliably delivering inpatient and outpatient evidence-based care measures in the areas of heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care at least 96 percent of the time, improving the hospital experience so that patients and families favorably rate their stay and would recommend the facility to others at least 76 percent of the time, reducing preventable harm events, and obtaining a readmissions rate at least 11 percent less than expected.
All QUEST hospitals participating in QUEST from October 2014-September 2015 were eligible for the QUEST Award
QUEST was launched in 2008 to help health systems reliably deliver the most efficient, effective and caring experience for every patient, every single time. Approximately 350 health systems volunteered to transparently share data and define a common framework with consistent measures that would continually set a top performance goal for both participants and the nation. QUEST participants have prevents more than 176,000 deaths, reduced healthcare spending by more than $15 billion and improved readmission rates by 32 percent.
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