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PRMC SELECTED AMONG THE NATION’S TOP PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT LEADERS BY THOMSON REUTERS |
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Paris Regional Medical Center has been named one of the nation’s performance improvement leaders by Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.
Paris Regional Medical Center and its senior management team were recognized for being one of a hundred hospitals making the greatest progress in improving hospital-wide performance over five consecutive years (2002-2006). The 2007 Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders have set national benchmarks for the rate and consistency of improvement in clinical outcomes, safety, hospital efficiency, and financial stability. Paris Regional Medical Center and its medical staff have made major strides in increasing the quality and efficiency of services locally.
Findings from the fifth edition of the Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: Performance Improvement Leaders study appears in the August 11, 2008, issue of Modern Healthcare magazine.
“At PRMC, quality is not just a buzz word but an integral part of our day to day operations, said Chris Dux, CEO of Paris Regional Medical Center. This important recognition from Thomas Reuters is a public acknowledgement of our continuous, deliberate and diligent focus quality improvement. I couldn’t be more proud of the work our board, leadership team, medical staff and employees have done over the past five years. This award is for them.”
Paris Regional Medical Center offers some of the most comprehensive health and wellness care in Northeast Texas and Southeast Oklahoma. Its campuses have more than 300 beds combined and offer general acute-care services as well as cardiovascular, women’s health, rehabilitation, surgical, gero-psychiatric and pediatric services.
“This study identifies superior leadership, based on the success of hospital executive teams’ long-term strategies for strengthening performance,” said Jean Chenoweth, senior vice president for performance improvement and 100 Top Hospitals programs at Thomson Reuters. “These are true ’Good to Great’ leadership teams that have focused on improving quality, efficiency, use of evidence-based medicine, and financial stability in order to better serve their patients and communities.”
The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals: Performance Improvement Leaders study analyzed acute care hospitals nationwide using detailed empirical performance data from years 2002 through 2006, including publicly available Medicare MedPAR data, Medicare cost reports, and Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) outpatient data.
The study rated hospitals on eight factors — patient mortality, medical complications, patient safety, length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, and use of evidence-based medicine. Researchers evaluated 2,867 short-term, acute care, non-federal hospitals grouped into five categories: major teaching hospitals, other teaching hospitals, large community hospitals, medium-sized community hospitals, and small community hospitals.
Paris Regional Medical Center appeared in the medium-size community hospitals category.
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Paris, Texas 75460
