Prairie Lakes Healthcare System has been named a recipient of the Women’s Choice Award® as one of America’s Best Hospitals for Emergency Care for a third consecutive year. This evidence-based designation is the only Emergency Care award that identifies the country’s best healthcare institutions based on robust criteria that considers female patient satisfaction, clinical excellence, and what women state that they want from a hospital.
“Receiving this award for the third consecutive year recognizes the emergency care team’s dedication to our patients’ health,” said Jill Fuller, CEO. “Receiving emergency care is often stressful and Prairie Lakes is proud of our staff and their commitment to providing patients with a positive experience.”
The America’s Best Hospitals for Emergency Care are hospitals that consistently rank among the best of the 3,800 hospitals reporting on the performance of their respective Emergency Departments. They are judged on the following Emergency Department performance measures reported by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS):
- Average number of minutes before outpatients with chest pain or possible heart attack received an ECG,
- Average time patients spent in the Emergency Department, before they were admitted to the hospital as an inpatient,
- Average time patients spent in the Emergency Department before they were seen by a healthcare professional,
- Average time patients spent waiting in the Emergency Department, after the doctor decided to admit them as an inpatient, but before leaving the Emergency Department for their inpatient room,
- Average time patients spent in the Emergency Department before being sent home,
- Average time patients who came to the Emergency Department with broken bones had to wait before receiving pain medication,
- Percentage of patients who came to the Emergency Department with stroke symptoms who received brain scan results within 45 minutes of arrival,
- Percentage of patients who left the Emergency Department before being seen.
Each of the measures indicated above were weighted according to a survey of over 1,000 women on their relative priority, and listed above in order of importance. Points were then totaled for all measures, per hospital. Those hospitals with total scores that placed them in the top 10% nationally, earned the Women’s Choice Award.
“We have found that recommendations are an important consideration used by women in selecting a hospital for themselves and their family. By helping women know which hospitals in their area provide the best critical care, we are able to help them make better decisions, especially when it comes to emergency situations,” says Delia Passi, CEO and Founder of the Women’s Choice Award.
For more information on the 2016 America’s Best Hospitals for Emergency Care visit http://www.womenschoiceaward.com/awarded/best-hospitals/emergency-care/
Photo (left to right):
- Jolene Comes, Emergency Department Resource Nurse
- Monica Everson, Emergency Department Resource Nurse
- Jill Fuller, President and CEO
- Jody Foster, Emergency Department Director
- Dr. Singh, Emergency Department Medical Director
- Dr. Scipione, Emergency Department Physician
- Dr. Bear, Emergency Department Physician
- Stefanie Robinson, Emergency Department Resource Nurse and Trauma Nurse Leader
- Shelly Turbak, Chief Nursing Officer
- Sara Jorgenson, Emergency Department Resource Nurse