Meadowview Regional Medical Center Named Duke LifePoint Quality Affiliate
May 22 2017 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Hospital recognized for achievements in
patient and family engagement, quality care and patient
safety
Meadowview Regional Medical Center today announced that it has
been named a Duke LifePoint Quality Affiliate. This designation
recognizes hospitals within the LifePoint Health system that have
enrolled in the LifePoint National Quality Program and succeeded in
transforming their culture of safety and achieving high standards
of quality care, performance improvement and patient
engagement.
“Meadowview Regional Medical Center has a long legacy of
providing high quality care, and earning this esteemed designation
is just one more way the hospital is making the Maysville community
healthier,” said Joe Koch, chief executive officer of Meadowview
Regional Medical Center. “I am so proud to be part of the
Meadowview team and look forward to continuing the hospital’s great
work to improve patient care, safety and satisfaction long into the
future.”
Meadowview Regional Medical Center is a 100-bed, acute-care
facility serving people in the Maysville, Ky., community and
surrounding areas. To achieve Duke LifePoint Quality Affiliate
designation, the Meadowview team worked to implement a number of
best practices and launch new initiatives to engage patients and
families, enhance patient safety and improve quality care.
For example, the hospital initiated leadership safety briefings
each morning to ensure that leaders have a regular proactive
planning session to address patient concerns. The hospital also
implemented bedside shift reporting to help ensure clear
communication, reduce the risk of errors and maintain consistency
of care during shift changes. Bedside shift reporting is an
effective method for transferring information from one provider to
another, while also involving the patient in discussions about
their health, progress and treatment plan. Additionally, Meadowview
established a Community Collaborative in an effort to work closely
with other healthcare providers and organizations in the community
to help reduce avoidable patient readmissions.
“At LifePoint, quality is truly at the core of our culture and
operations, and Meadowview has gone above and beyond to satisfy the
rigorous requirements necessary to be named a Duke LifePoint
Quality Affiliate,” said David Dill, president and chief operating
officer of LifePoint Health. “We are delighted to recognize this
high-performing facility and commend the many improvements it has
made to take even better care of patients and their families.”
The LifePoint National Quality Program was created through a
collaboration between LifePoint Health and Duke University Health
System. When hospitals enroll in the program, they begin working
with Duke and LifePoint quality coaches to evaluate and strengthen
their quality programs and processes. Following an initial
evaluation, the hospital creates a plan and begins to deploy
changes that will help it achieve quality improvement benchmarks
and establish long-term solutions to sustain its results.
In addition to evaluating common quality care and patient safety
metrics, the LifePoint National Quality Program focuses on
foundational elements required to sustain quality care, including
committed leadership, systems to ensure continuous performance and
process improvement, and a culture dedicated to safety. Duke
LifePoint Quality Affiliate designation denotes those hospitals
that achieve a broad range of criteria in each of these areas and
demonstrate a capacity to continuously measure and improve quality
and patient safety.
About Meadowview Regional Medical Center
MRMC is a 100-bed acute care facility located along the Ohio
River in Maysville, Kentucky. The service area consists of five
counties in Kentucky and two counties in Ohio. Delivering quality
healthcare close to home is the single most important contribution
we make in achieving our mission of Making Communities Healthier®.
Our medical staff consists of well-trained physicians covering a
number of specialties, including Allergy, Anesthesia, Cardiology,
Emergency Medicine, Endocrinology, Family Practice,
Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Hematology/Oncology,
Hospitalist, Internal Medicine, Nephrology, Neurology,
Obstetrics/Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Orthopedics, Otolaryngology,
Pathology, Pediatrics, Podiatry, Radiation Therapy, Radiology,
Sleep Medicine and Urology. For more information, visit
www.MeadowviewRegional.com.
About LifePoint Health
LifePoint Health (NASDAQ: LPNT) is a leading healthcare company
dedicated to Making Communities Healthier®. Through its
subsidiaries, it provides quality inpatient, outpatient and
post-acute services close to home. LifePoint owns and operates
community hospitals, regional health systems, physician practices,
outpatient centers, and post-acute facilities in 22 states. It is
the sole community healthcare provider in the majority of the
non-urban communities it serves. More information about the company
can be found at www.LifePointHealth.net.
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