Mayo receives Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence

    DOVER-FOXCROFT — VHA Inc., a national health care network, has given Mayo Regional Hospital a 2013 VHA Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence, honoring the hospital for achieving national performance standards for clinical quality, safety and patient experience.

    VHA is a national network of more than 1,350 not-for-profit hospital systems and 72,000 non-acute facilities that work together to achieve new levels of clinical performance and operational efficiency.
    Mayo was one of 40 VHA member hospitals this year to receive a Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence. Winners were announced May 1 during VHA’s national meeting, the 2013 Navigating to Excellence Forum, held in Las Vegas.
    Mayo also won the Leadership Award in 2012.
    The VHA Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence recognizes organizations that achieve top performance in care measures tracked by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Winners are selected based on a composite score consisting of three elements: 1) Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Total Performance Score, which includes Core Measures and the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Services (HCAHPS) survey results; 2) 30-day readmission rates; and 3) Medicare cost data.
    “We are proud to be recognized and again receive this prestigious award. It reflects the entire staff’s dedication and focus on quality,” said Edward J. Hannon, Mayo’s president and CEO. “Mayo Regional Hospital physicians and staff remain committed to ongoing improvements for patient safety and care. We do this work not for the awards, but because we believe our patients deserve the best care possible in a hospital that the community can be proud of. This, along with other awards Mayo Regional Hospital has received, are excellent objective evaluations for the community and all of Maine to see that safe, high-quality care can be received in small hospitals.”
    “The leaders and staff in these organizations have shown their dedication to providing not only consistently high levels of clinical care but also continually improving that performance to produce better outcomes for their patients,” said Steve Miff, PhD, VHA’s senior vice president for Clinical and Care Delivery Solutions. “Since the passing of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, the health care industry has moved quickly to establish and meet performance quality metrics and align care protocol. We are especially proud of these VHA organizations for exceptional performance.”
    By recognizing institutions for their commitment and achievements, VHA hopes that other health systems will apply these leading practices in their own organizations to further enhance the overall level of quality in our nation’s health care system.