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Aurora Health Care Top Performing Health System in National Quality Initiative
Date:8/17/2009

ra hospitals received 68 incentive payments, the most of any system in the country.
  • Aurora hospitals collectively achieved the incentive level for 100 percent of the 42 quality areas where they were potentially eligible to receive awards.

    • "Our commitment as a major health care provider in Wisconsin is to find ways to provide care that lead to high quality, high-efficiency and low-costs. These results demonstrate that our integrated model of care is fulfilling that promise," said Nick Turkal, M.D., Aurora President and CEO. "We believe strongly that our integrated health system is a better model for the patients we serve. It enables us to provide care across all settings so patients have easy access to the best care and service."

    "When you look at reforming our health care system, the quality demonstration model is a prime example of how we can improve access and care while controlling costs," Turkal said.

    Based on fourth-year results from the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration, Aurora received a bonus payment of nearly $365,000 for the health system's quality achievements. CMS awarded incentive payments of approximately $12 million to 112 hospitals. Overall, 206 awards were given to top-performing hospitals in the fourth year of the project.

    The incentive payments to Aurora are utilized to further improve care and provide data to physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other caregivers.

    "The successes of the hospitals - small and large, urban and rural, teaching and non-teaching - in the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration project have led to its consideration as the basis for key national health reforms," said Susan DeVore, Premier president and CEO. "As the proposal of a national value-base purchasing program becomes a reality, hospitals participating in the initiative will have six years experience w
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