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Stormont-Vail HealthCare Receives Awards for Excellence Stormont-Vail HealthCare has been the recipient of several national recognitions for excellence in clinical care in recent months. These include: • An Excellence Award for Clinical Care from VHA Inc., national health care network. The award recognizes Stormont-Vail’s achievement of exceptionally high levels of performance in clinical care when compared to national benchmarks. The award was presented April 27 during VHA’s national Navigating to Excellence Forum in Las Vegas. To determine the winners of the Clinical Care Award, VHA used cost, length of stay, readmission and clinical outcome data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to determine an integrated performance score for each of its member hospitals. In addition to scoring above the 90th percentile, as compared to other VHA members, the hospital must also have participated in a VHA improvement program in 2013. Stormont-Vail was one of seven acute care hospitals in the country (with more than 250 beds) recognized for excellence. • The Get With the Guidelines-Stroke Gold-Plus Quality Achievement Award for implementing specific quality improvement measures
outlined by the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association for the treatment of stroke patients. Get With the Guidelines-Stroke helps hospital teams provide the most up-to-date, research-based guidelines with the goal of speeding recovery and reducing death and disability for stroke patients. Stormont-Vail earned the award by meeting specific quality achievement measures for the diagnosis and treatment of stroke patients at a set level for a designated period. These measures include aggressive use of medications and risk-reduction therapies aimed at reducing death and disability and improving the lives of stroke patients. • The Stormont-Vail Neonatal IntensiveCare Unit has received the 2014 PRC National Excellence in Healthcare 5-Star Award. The 5-Star Award is a designation given annually to health care facilities, providers, outpatient service lines and inpatient units that score in the top 10 percent (or 90th percentile) of the PRC national client database for the prior calendar year. The award is based on the percentage of patients who give a rating of “Excellent” for the Overall Quality of Care.