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January 1, 2010
by Staff
Hospital News
Brooksville Regional and Spring Hill Regional Hospitals are among the nation's 100 Top Performance Improvement Leader Hospitals by Thomson Healthcare for the second consecutive year.
This award recognizes the boards, executive management teams and medical staff whose leadership has “achieved the fastest five-year rate of consistent annual organization-wide improvement in the healthcare industry.” According to Thomson, “Hospitals that win this award have leaders who are poised to succeed in today’s healthcare market…where educated consumers place a premium on hospitals that provide value to their communities.”
While Brooksville Regional Hospital was actually named in the prestigious study’s results, (in its Medium Community Hospital category), Thomson analyzed empirical performance data gathered jointly from Brooksville and Spring Hill Regional Hospitals from 2002-2006, and compared it to thousands of acute-care hospitals nationwide.
“The 100 Top Hospitals Performance Improvement Leaders study is the first to measure the rate and consistency of hospital-wide performance improvement nationally, based on both management and clinical outcomes over five consecutive years,” said Jean Chenoweth, Senior Vice President, Performance Improvement & 100 Top Hospitals Program, of Thomson Healthcare. “These are leaders who have brought increasing value to the community, year after year. Please accept my personal congratulations,” she added. Spring Hill and Brooksville Regional Hospitals and their medical staffs have made major strides in increasing the quality and efficiency of services locally.
“In 1998, Health Management Associates, Inc., (HMA) took over management of Brooksville and Spring Hill Regional Hospitals, and promised to not only make them financially viable, but a healthy, thriving part of this community,” said Kathy Burke, FACHE, Regional Vice President and CEO of Brooksville Regional Hospital. “They quickly began delivering on that promise and today, we’re seeing the fruits of their efforts as evidenced by this recognition.”
“Our board, medical staff, management team, employees and volunteers are some of the best and brightest in the medical profession, and it is their dedication to excellence in caring which has allowed us to earn this distinction,” added Burke. “I couldn’t be prouder to be part of our organization.”
“We have worked to effectively balance superior quality of care, excellence in the efficient delivery of services, and financial performance,” said Jason Roeback, CEO of Spring Hill Regional Hospital. “By maintaining this balanced organizational performance, we can better deliver high-quality healthcare services, in response to the needs of our patients and our community, on a sustainable basis.”
The study looked at all U.S. hospitals licensed to treat Medicare patients. Eight performance measures were examined at each hospital: risk-adjusted mortality and complications, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, growth in patient volume, and risk-adjusted patient safety index.
Facilities recognized fall into five hospital classes, and the number of recognitions by hospital class include: Major Teaching Hospitals– 15, Teaching Hospitals – 25, Large Community Hospitals, (250+ Beds) – 20, Medium Community Hospitals, (100 to 249 Beds) – 20, Small Community Hospitals, (25 to 99 Beds) – 20.
“Efforts at Brooksville and Spring Hill Regional Hospitals are part of a broader, national movement to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare spurred by the Institute of Medicine’s 2001 publication of "Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century," a book that described quality issues and proposed six goals for healthcare delivery,” said Chenoweth. “Partly as a result of this landmark study, a number of organizations began developing programs to improve hospital patient safety.
"Your local hospitals have found the key to continually improving their health services for the people in the community," she added.
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