Quality Awards and Accreditations
Accreditations
In 2010 Sonora Regional Medical Center received full accreditations from two of the country's leading hospital accreditating agencies. The Joint Comission and the Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program (HFAP).
To learn more about these accreditations visit their websites:
HFAP
The Joint Commission
Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) Awards
Sonora Regional Medical Center has been named a top performer in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Premier healthcare alliance value-based purchasing (VBP) project that rewards hospitals for delivering high quality care in six clinical areas.
Based on fifth-year results from the Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration ™ (HQID) project, the Medical Center received five awards for (Top Performance and/or Top Improvement and/or Attainment) in the clinical area(s) of Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, Hip & Knee, Pneomonia and SCIP.
Due to its successes Sonora Regional Medical Center will receive a bonus payment of $37,191 from CMS, which awarded incentive payments of approximately $12 million to 218 hospitals.
About the HQID project
HQID is the first national project of its kind, designed to determine if economic incentives to hospitals are effective at improving the quality of inpatient care. Through the project, Premier collects a set of more than 30 evidence-based clinical quality measures from about 225 hospitals across the country. The quality measures were developed by government and private organizations (for more information on the indicators, visit www.qualitydemo.com).
HQID tracks process and outcome measures in six clinical areas: acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure, coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), pneumonia, hip and knee replacement, and Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP).
Improvements in quality of care saved an estimated 6,500 acute myocardial infarction (AMI/heart attack) patients in five years, according to a Premier analysis of mortality rates at participating hospitals. The more than 2 million patients treated in the six clinical areas at the 225 participating hospitals also received approximately 700,000 additional evidence-based clinical measures, such as the proper administration of aspirin, beta blockers and antibiotics.
For hospitals participating in the HQID project, the average Composite Quality Score (CQS), an aggregate of all process and outcomes measures within each clinical area, improved by 18.3 percent over the project’s first five years. Examples of the measures include the proper administering of aspirin, beta blockers and antibiotics; and readmission and mortality rates.
Additional research by Premier using the Hospital Compare dataset showed that, by September 2008, HQID participants scored on average 6.4 percentage points higher (95.05 percent to 88.64 percent) than non-participants when evaluating 19 common Hospital Compare measures.
Award criteria—All awards are based on the change in the hospital CQS in the performance year compared to two years prior (year 3 to year 5).
- Attainment Award—Hospitals that attain or exceed the median level CQS benchmark from two years prior will receive an incentive payment.
- Top Performance Award—The top 20 percent of hospitals in each clinical area will receive an additional incentive payment. This group will receive the Attainment Award as well.
- Top Improvement Award—Hospitals that attain median level performance and are among the top 20 percent of hospitals with the largest percentage quality improvements in each clinical area will receive an additional incentive payment.
