Qualis Health: Award Winners

Award of Excellence Winners

View a list of recipients of Qualis Health's Award of Excellence in Healthcare Quality for the following years:

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.

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, see a list of recipients or download the brochure.

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, click here or download the brochure.