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Prime Healthcare Services Inc. selects Premier healthcare alliance to enhance public reporting
Quality Measures Reporter™ to be used in nine hospitals; supports improved patient outcomes while reducing costs
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (May 8, 2008) — Prime Healthcare Services, Inc. (“PHS”) of Victorville, Calif., has signed an agreement with the Premier healthcare alliance to employ Quality Measures Reporter™ to meet public inpatient and outpatient regulatory reporting requirements for its nine hospitals in California.
Prime Healthcare will deploy Quality Measurers Reporter at Centinela Hospital Medical Center, Inglewood; Chino Valley Medical Center, Chino; Desert Valley Medical Center, Victorville; Huntington Beach Hospital, Huntington Beach; La Palma Intercommunity Hospital, La Palma; Montclair Hospital Medical Center, Montclair; Paradise Valley Hospital, National City; Sherman Oaks Hospital, Sherman Oaks; and West Anaheim Medical Center, Anaheim.
“Prime Healthcare Services strives to achieve highest quality of patient care standards at all of its affiliated hospitals,” said Prem Reddy, MD, FACC, FCCP, PHS’ Chairman of the Board, “yet in a compassionate and cost-effective manner.”
Desert Valley Hospital, Prime Healthcare’s flagship hospital, was one of 49 hospitals nationwide to win a 2007 Premier | CareScience Select Practice National Quality Award for superior patient outcomes in both quality and efficiency of care. The award recognizes the top 1 percent of the more than 4,700 acute care inpatient facilities in the U.S. eligible to receive the award. Winners were identified as a top performer in quality and efficiency among all acute care facilities in MEDPAR data, regardless of bed size or teaching status.
Quality Measures Reporter is a single-source solution that allows hospitals to collect, submit and analyze data to measure clinical quality for compliance with national and state regulatory agencies, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, The Joint Commission and pay-for-performance reimbursement initiatives.
Quality Measures Reporter captures and reports on more data at the physician and nursing unit level than any other product, enabling hospitals to track performance against national benchmarks and identify performance opportunities to increase clinical quality and efficiency, ensuring performance-based reimbursement and protecting market share.
The reporting tool is integrated into the Premier Performance Suite™, which includes benchmarking, reporting analysis and real-time surveillance of clinical, safety, financial, operational, labor productivity and supply data.
About Prime Healthcare Services, Inc.
Prime Healthcare Services Inc., Victorville, Calif. is a progressive,
innovative and rapidly expanding hospital management company in Southern
California. The PHS mission is to provide comprehensive quality healthcare
in a compassionate, convenient and cost-effective manner. With more than
6,000 employees, PHS currently owns and operates nine acute care hospitals
in California: Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood (370 beds),
Chino Valley Medical Center in Chino (126 beds), Desert Valley Hospital in
Victorville (83 beds), Huntington Beach Hospital in Huntington Beach (141
beds), La Palma Intercommunity Hospital in La Palma (131 beds), Montclair
Hospital Medical Center in Montclair (102 beds), Paradise Valley Hospital in
National City (301 beds), Sherman Oaks Hospital and the Grossman Burn Center
in Sherman Oaks (153 beds), and West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim (219
beds). For more information please visit
www.primehealthcare.com.
About Premier Inc., 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
recipient
Serving more than 2,000 U.S. hospitals and 50,000 other healthcare sites,
the Premier healthcare alliance and its members are transforming healthcare
together. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates one of the
leading healthcare purchasing networks and the nation's most comprehensive
repository of hospital clinical and financial information. A subsidiary
operates one of the nation's largest policy-holder owned, hospital
professional liability risk-retention groups. A world leader in helping
healthcare providers deliver dramatic improvements in care, Premier is
working with the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West and the
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to improve hospital performance.
Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C.,
Philadelphia and Washington. For more information, visit
www.premierinc.com.