2012

Idaho

• Clearwater Valley Hospital and Clinics (Orofino)
  Three-Part Aim: Improved Healthcare for Individuals, Better Health for the Community, Lower Per-Capita Costs
• Bonner General Hospital (Sandpoint)
  Patient Safety
• Kindred Nursing and Rehabilitation—Mountain Valley (Kellogg)
  Organizational Culture
• Kootenai Health (Coeur d’Alene)
  Infection Prevention
• St. Luke’s Health System (Boise)
  Clinical Care Improvement
• Representative John M. Rusche, MD
  Exemplary Contributions to Healthcare Quality in Idaho

To read more about this year's Award of Excellence in Healthcare Quality winners of Idaho, download the brochure.

2011

Idaho

• Madison Memorial Hospital (Rexburg)
  Preventing Medication Errors
• Saint Alphonsus Health System (Boise)
  Hand Hygiene
• Saint Alphonsus Health System (Boise)
  Preventing Patient Falls
• St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center (Ketchum)
  Healing Touch
• Teton Valley Health Care (Driggs)
  Medication Reconciliation

Idaho Consortium for Healthcare Performance Improvement Award

Winner

• St. Luke's Internal Medicine (Boise)
  Pneumococcal Immunizations

Honorable Mention

• Kaniksu Health Services (Sandpoint)
  Pneumococcal Immunizations

To read more about this year's Award of Excellence in Healthcare Quality winners of Idaho and the winner and honorable mention of the Idaho Consortium for Healthcare Performance Improvement Award download the brochure.

Washington

• Columbia Basin Health Association (Othello)
  Improving Tdap Vaccinations in Postpartum Patients
• Group Health Cooperative (Tukwila)
  Medication Reconciliation by Ambulatory Clinical Pharmacists Post Hospital Discharge
• Harborview Medical Center (Seattle)
  Code Sepsis: Improving Survival in Sepsis with Early Identification and Activation of a Critical Care Team
• Providence Regional Medical Center Everett (Everett)
  Implementation of Antimicrobial Therapy Monitoring Service
• Puget Sound Healthcare (Olympia)
  Pressure Ulcer Reduction
• Swedish Health Services (Seattle)
  Reducing Sepsis Mortality through Improved Patient Transitions from Emergency Department to Intensive Care Unit
• University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle)
  Infection Control Breakthrough Goal Project: A Systems-Level Approach to Eliminating Healthcare-Acquired MRSA, CLABSI, Respiratory Virus Infections, VAP and CAUTI
• Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle)
  Improving the Safety, Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Medication Administration Process
• Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital (Yakima)
  Outpatient Infusion Care—Throughput Workout  

Read more about the winners

See the list of nominees

2010

Idaho

• Bingham Memorial Hospital (Blackfoot)
  Implementing a Clinical Pharmacy Anticoagulation Service (CPAS)
• Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center (Idaho Falls)
  Participating in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Web & Action Program
• Guardian Home Care and Hospice (Nampa)
  Decreasing Acute Care Hospitalizations
• Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (Boise)
  Reducing Pressure Ulcers
• St. Luke's Heart and St. Luke's Idaho Cardiology Associates, St. Luke's Health System (Boise)
  Using STEMI to Improve Door to PCI

To read more about this year's Award of Excellence in Healthcare Quality winners of Idaho, download the brochure.

Washington

• Harborview Medical Center (Seattle)
  Safe in Our Hands
• Providence ElderPlace (Seattle)
  Fall Prevention Program
• Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center (Spokane)
  Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcers
• Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle)
  Heart Failure Care Transitions
• Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital (Yakima)
  Emergency Department Throughput
• Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital (Yakima)
  Glycemic Control Per Pharmacy

To read more about this year's Award of Excellence in Healthcare Quality winners of Washington, download the brochure.

2009

Idaho

• Portneuf Medical Center (Pocatello)
  Improving Medicare Core Measures Performance
• Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (Boise)
  Improving the Health and Outcomes of Patients Admitted to Critical Care Units
• Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (Boise)
  Reducing Patient Mortality Rates under the 5 Million Lives Campaign
• St. Luke's Children’s Hospital/NICU (Boise)
  Decreasing Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) in Preterm Infants
• St. Luke's Health System (Boise)
  Reducing the Rate of Drug Barcode Overrides
• St. Luke's Magic Valley (Twin Falls)
  Decreasing Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Surgical Site Infections
• St. Luke's Wood River Medical Center (Ketchum)
  Developing a Rapid Response Protocol to Decrease Code Blue Events

Washington

• Hall Health Primary Care Center (Seattle)
  Acute Pharyngitis/Sore Throats
• Harborview Medical Center (Seattle)
  Hospital Acquired Pressure Ulcer Tracking Program
• Multicare Health System (Tacoma)
  Urinary Tract Infection Reduction Program
• Providence St. Peter Hospital (Olympia)
  AMI Door to Dilation
• Tacoma General Hospital (Tacoma)
  Low-Risk Chest Pain Process Improvement Initiative
• Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle)
  Health Maintenance Module
• Virginia Mason Medical Center (Seattle)
  Resident Handoffs

To read more about this year's Award of Excellence in Healthcare Quality winners of Washington, download the brochure.

2007/2008

Idaho

• Caribou Memorial Hospital (Soda Springs)
  Implementing Shared Governance in the Nursing Department
• Helping Hands Home Health (Pocatello)
  Reducing Acute Care Hospitalizations
• Pocatello Family Medicine (Pocatello)
  Quality of Culture Project
• Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center (Boise)
  Creating a Multidisciplinary Diabetes Management Plan and Reducing MRSA Infections
• Trinity Mission Health and Rehab of Holly, LP (Nampa)
  Implementing a Team Approach to Wound Management

Washington

• Hillcrest Manor and Rehabilitation Center (Sunnyside)
  The Effect of Staff Turnover and Absenteeism on Elder Care
• Lincoln Hospital (Davenport), Northwest MedStar (Spokane Valley) and Sacred Heart Medical Center (Spokane)
  AMI Level 1 Cardiac Protocol
• Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories (PAML) (Spokane)
  Driving Quality Through Implementation of Unique Middleware Solutions
• Providence Hospice and Home Care of Snohomish County (Everett)
  Bereavement Counseling Intern Program
• Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children’s Hospital (Spokane)
  Eliminating Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) in the PICU
• Walla Walla General Hospital (Walla Walla)
  Achieving Top Performance with Core Measures

To read more about this year's Award of Excellence in Healthcare Quality winners of Washington, download the brochure.

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