2019 Quality Award Winners in Wyoming
Hospital Quality Awards
To be eligible for a Wyoming Hospital Quality Award, hospitals must demonstrate commitment to providing high quality patient care. All award winners were required to reach quality goals in patient satisfaction, clinical care, and patient and family engagement. Mountain-Pacific celebrates these hospitals and looks forward to another year of excellence in Wyoming health care.
Eight hospitals received the Quality Excellence Award—the highest award possible:
- Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County, Rock Springs
- Memorial Hospital of Converse County, Douglas
- Campbell County Health, Gillette
- Powell Valley Healthcare, Powell
- Washakie Medical Center, Worland
- Wyoming Medical Center, Casper
- Ivinson Memorial Hospital, Laramie
- Cody Regional Health, Cody
Nursing Home Quality Awards
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) supports the National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative (NNHQCC) through the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) program. Mountain-Pacific is the local QIN-QIO for Wyoming.
The NNHQCC’s goals are to instill quality and performance improvement practices, eliminate healthcare-acquired conditions and improve resident satisfaction. To measure how well nursing homes are achieving these goals, CMS created a “composite score” system—the lower the score, the better. Mountain-Pacific’s Quality Awards are based on each facility’s composite score, its licensure with Wyoming’s state survey agency, the Office of Healthcare Licensing and Survey and its certification with CMS.
Five facilities received the Recognition of Quality Excellence Award, the top award:
- Crook County Health Services-LTC, Sundance
- Life Care Center of Casper, Casper
- Westview Care Center, Sheridan
- Life Care Center of Cheyenne, Cheyenne
- Poplar Living Center, Casper
Three facilities received the Recognition of Quality Achievement Award:
- Rawlins Rehabilitation and Wellness, Rawlins
- St. John’s Living Center, Jackson
- Star Valley Care Center, Afton
Seven facilities received the Innovator Quality Achievement Award:
- St. John’s Living Center, Jackson
- Weston County Health Services-LTC, Newcastle
- Life Care Center of Casper, Casper
- Powell Valley Care Center, Powell
- Cheyenne Regional Medical Center-TCU, Cheyenne
- Morning Star Care Center, Fort Washakie
- Crook County Health Services-LTC, Sundance