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National hospitals recognized for excellence in quality of patient care and efficiency

Premier | CareScience award honors top 1 percent of all hospitals nationally

PHILADELPHIA (October 19, 2007) – The Premier healthcare alliance today honored 49 hospitals from across the country with the 2007 Premier | CareScience Select Practice National Quality Award for superior patient outcomes in both quality and efficiency of care.

The Select Practice National Quality Award recognizes the top 1 percent of the more than 4,700 acute care inpatient facilities in the United States eligible to receive the award. Winners did not apply for the award, but instead were identified as a top performer in quality and efficiency among all acute care facilities in the MEDPAR 2005 data, regardless of bed size or teaching status.

“We are pleased to recognize this select group of hospitals offering the highest quality and most efficient patient care in the nation,” said Richard A Bankowitz, M.D., M.B.A., F.A.C.P., vice president and medical director for Premier Healthcare Informatics. “These hospitals represent the country’s elite healthcare facilities for patient care based on performance using objective measures of clinical outcomes and efficiencies.”

Select Practice data includes 16 different clinically relevant indicators of risk, more than any other national quality award or designation. The quality index is calculated by combining the outcome deviations for mortality, morbidity and complications into a single quality measure for each facility. The combined quality and efficiency ratings are used to determine the award recipients.

Additional information about the Premier | CareScience Select Practice National Quality Award and related methodology can be found at: http://www.premierinc.com/about/news/awards/index.jsp.

Winners of the 2007 Premier | CareScience Select Practice National Quality Award are:

Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center / Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center / Boston, Massachusetts
Bethesda North Hospital / Cincinnati, Ohio
Caritas Carney Hospital / Dorchester, Massachusetts
Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center / Boston, Massachusetts
Centra Health / Lynchburg, Virginia
Chestnut Hill Hospital / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cleveland Clinic Florida/ Weston, Florida
Community Hospital of Ottawa / Ottawa, Illinois
Day Kimball Hospital / Putnam, Connecticut
Desert Valley Hospital / Victorville, California
DuBois Regional Medical Center / DuBois, Pennsylvania
Faulkner Hospital / Boston, Massachusetts
Griffin Hospital / Derby, Connecticut
Hamot Medical Center / Erie, Pennsylvania
Harlan ARH Hospital / Harlan, Kentucky
Harris Methodist Walls Regional Hospital / Cleburne, Texas
Holy Family Memorial / Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Innovis Health Hospital / Fargo, North Dakota
John Dempsey Hospital / Farmington, Connecticut
Joint Township District Memorial Hospital / St. Marys, Ohio
Lahey Clinic Medical Center / Burlington, Massachusetts
Lake Hospital System / Painesville, Ohio
Lake Wales Medical Center / Lake Wales, Florida
Lakeland Regional Medical Center / St. Joseph, Michigan
Memorial Hospital and Health Care Center / Jasper, Indiana
Memorial Hospital of Carbondale / Carbondale, Illinois
Mercy Hospital Cadillac / Cadillac, Michigan
Mercy Medical Center / Springfield, Ohio
Mercy Medical Center / Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Mercy Medical Center – North Iowa / Mason City, Iowa
MetroHealth Medical Center / Cleveland, Ohio
Northeast Regional Medical Center / Kirksville, Missouri
Providence Health Center / Waco, Texas
Sarah Bush Lincoln Health Center / Mattoon, Illinois
Skaggs Community Health Center / Branson, Missouri
SSM DePaul Health Center / Bridgeton, Missouri
SSM St. Joseph Health Center / St. Charles, Missouri
SSM St. Mary's Health Center / St. Louis, Missouri
St. Claire Regional Medical Center / Morehead, Kentucky
St. Elizabeth Hospital / Appleton, Wisconsin
St. Mark's Hospital / Salt Lake City, Utah
St. Mary Medical Center / Walla Walla, Washington
St. Vincent Charity Hospital / Cleveland, Ohio
Trinity Medical Center – West Campus / Rock Island, Illinois
UPMC St. Margaret / Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Villages Regional Medical Center / The Villages, Florida
Willis-Knighton Bossier Health Center / Bossier City, Louisiana
Winchester Hospital / Winchester, Massachusetts

About Premier Inc., 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award recipient
The Premier healthcare alliance is more than 2,300 U.S. hospitals and 64,000-plus other healthcare sites working together to improve healthcare quality and affordability. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier maintains the nation's most comprehensive repository of clinical, financial and outcomes information and operates a leading healthcare purchasing network. A world leader in helping deliver measurable improvements in care, Premier works with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the United Kingdom's National Health Service North West to improve hospital performance. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier also has offices in San Diego, Philadelphia and Washington. Follow Premier on Twitter.