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TX hospital named top heart-failure care provider
Quality Improvement Monitor, May 26, 2005
Harris Methodist Fort Worth (TX) Hospital received a Premier Award for Quality on May 20 in the area of heart failure in recognition of clinical excellence in both quality of care and operational efficiency.
The Premier Award for Quality is given in five clinical areas and based on quality and cost data regularly submitted to Premier Inc., a Charlotte, NC-based hospital consortium, for reporting and benchmarking purposes. It considers performance-based criteria including clinical quality outcomes, clinical process indicators, and resource utilization outcomes.
Clinical areas considered for the 2005 Premier Award for Quality are total joint replacement of the hip and/or knee, coronary artery bypass graft, heart failure, community-acquired pneumonia, and acute myocardial infarction.
Only three winners were picked in each category for each hospital type from an eligible pool of nearly 400 Premier hospitals. Hospitals that submitted data to Premier's Perspective clinical comparative database between July 2003 and July 2004 were eligible to participate in the 2005 award program.
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