Regions Hospital is the First Academic Medical Center to Be Recognized as an Emergency Center of Excellence
Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN, has been verified as an Emergency Center of Excellence by Emergency Excellence, an organization specializing in emergency department benchmarking.
ST. PAUL, MN, February 16, 2011
Regions Hospital in St. Paul, MN, has been verified as an Emergency Center of Excellence by Emergency Excellence, an organization specializing in emergency department benchmarking. Emergency Excellence developed the award in response the 2006 Institute of Medicine's call for emergency department improvement and to motivate emergency care providers to achieve a higher standard of quality.Regions Hospital is the first academic medical center in the nation and the fourth hospital overall to qualify as an Emergency Center of Excellence. Eligibility for the Emergency Center of Excellence is based on the results of over 100 key performance indicators linked to seven Pillars of Excellence (Safety, Satisfaction, Space, Staff, Support, Systems, and Solvency). Emergency Excellence compares hospitals on emergency department performance and surveys physicians, nurses, hospital staff, medical staff, and administrators. The Emergency Center of Excellence award is verified after an on-site assessment.
"Regions Hospital's emergency department provides an excellent patient experience" says Mark Reiter, M.D. M.B.A., CEO of Emergency Excellence. "Regions also offers a robust emergency medicine residency training program, which in most hospitals creates challenges to providing efficient care. However, Regions Hospital far exceeds most emergency departments across dozens of clinical and operational benchmarks.
Kurt Isenberger, M.D., Medical Director at Regions Hospital Emergency Department notes, "We are honored to be recognized as an Emergency Center of Excellence. Regions' emergency department and hospital staff work very well together as a team. In particular, physician-nurse relationships are superb, which translates into excellent patient care."
About Regions Hospital:
Regions Hospital is a Level I Trauma Center and teaching hospital serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin for more than 130 years. Regions is a private, non-profit hospital providing outstanding care in women's health, heart, cancer, surgery, orthopaedics, neuroscience, burn, emergency care and more. Regions is part of the HealthPartners family of care. Additional information is available at regionshospital.com.
About Emergency Excellence:
Emergency Excellence was founded in 2008 to help hospitals improve performance and recognize excellence in emergency care. Emergency Excellence provides a variety of emergency department performance improvement services including benchmarking, interactive dashboards, patient callbacks, and consulting. Emergency Excellence awards the Emergency Center of Excellence award to top-performing emergency departments. More information about Emergency Excellence can be found at http://www.emergencyexcellence.com.