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Presby Plano receives financial award for performance
By Stephanie Flemmons, Staff Writer
Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano received a financial award for quality performance measured by a national quality incentive project.
Texas Health Plano received $27,089, including six performance awards from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services in the fourth year of the national program.
The program is designed to raise the bar on health care across the nation and add a financial incentive to hospitals to reach metrics that would change their performance.
The hospital received Top Performer, Attainment Performer and Top Improver awards in the categories of heart attack, heart failure, coronary artery bypass graft surgery and pneumonia.
Brock said Texas Health Plano met certain standards set for the project including taking care of patients that met time standards, which allows the hospital to deliver better care.
“There is no greater team sport than health care,” Brock said. “From physicians to nurses — every aspect makes a care-giving team.”
The 12 Texas Health hospitals participating in the project will receive 56 awards totaling $363,801. Each of the hospitals attained or exceeded quality benchmarks in one or more areas of care measured in the Premier-CMS health care alliance Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQIPD) pay-for-performance project.
“We are proud of these significant achievements, and even prouder of the employees at Texas Health Plano who demonstrate their commitment to excellence and quality for our patients each and every day,” said Dr. Jeffrey Canose, Texas Health Plano president. “These quality performance awards are the result of a continual team effort that enlists the skills and expertise of employees across the hospital and the physicians on our medical staff. Seeing our rates increase against our peers shows us that our team-based approach is working.”
An analysis of mortality rates at hospitals participating in the project indicated that improvements made in the quality of care saved an estimated 4,700 heart attack patients nationwide during its firs four years, according to Premier Inc. More than 1.5 million patients treated in five clinical areas at participating HQID hospitals received approximately 500,000 additional recommended evidence-based clinical quality measures, such as smoking cessation, discharge instructions and pneumococcal vaccination, during that same timeframe.
“Health care consumers across North Texas should be proud to know the community hospitals that have served them for decades are recognized for continual improvements in quality,” said Douglas D. Hawthorne, Texas Health CEO. “These awards represent a lot of hard work and effort across our health care system to continually raise the bar for the quality of care we provide to the communities we serve.”
The incentive payment is expected to be distributed to Texas Health Plano by August 7. The Premier pay-for-performance project is one of many measurements Texas Health hospitals use to benchmark and improve quality.
Through the project, Premier collects a set of more than 30 evidence-based clinical quality measures from more than 250 hospitals across the country.
All results from the quality demonstration project will be made public on the Web sites for Premier and CMS.
Contact Stephanie Flemmons at sflemmons@acnpapers.com
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