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Community Medical Center Receives APEX Award
for Excellence In Patient Care from VHA Inc.
The Pittsburgh, PA. office of VHA Inc., the national health care alliance, has recognized Community Medical Center for demonstrating excellence in patient care. CMC is one of a few qualifying VHA member hospitals to receive VHA Pennsylvania’s Achieving Patient Care Excellence (APEX) award. The award was presented to Community Medical Center on November 2, 2007 for demonstrating extraordinary levels of clinical performance in Surgical Infection Prevention Core Measure Indicators, January through March 2007.
“We are proud to be among the VHA member organizations receiving this award for achieving patient care excellence of greater than 90% in the surgical infection prevention category,” said John Nilsson, Interim President and CEO, Community Medical Center Healthcare System.
The APEX award is designed to honor organizations that have differentiated themselves by demonstrating extraordinary levels of clinical performance. The recognition program is open to all members of the VHA Pennsylvania region, and hospitals are evaluated in several areas that include infection control, critical care, glucose control and patient safety.
“We are pleased to honor Community Medical Center with this award,” said Marilyn Rudolph, RN, BSN, MBA, vice president of performance improvement at one of two VHA offices in Pennsylvania. “VHA is working with hospitals across the nation to help them improve clinical performance. In fact, our members are some of the best performers in the country. This award validates their commitment, as well as ours, to improve clinical quality and patient care.”
The APEX award program was launched in March 2007. Data for APEX Award criteria is reviewed by VHA Pennsylvania staff on a quarterly basis.
To learn more about Community Medical Center’s clinical improvement initiatives visit, www.cmchealthsys.org and to learn more about VHA, Inc. and its clinical improvement initiatives, visit www.vha.com.
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