AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize Announced
Last month five U.S. hospitals were recognized at the American Hospital Association Leadership Summit (AHA) for their leadership and innovation in quality improvement and safety. Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Fla., won the 2011 AHA–McKesson Quest for Quality® Prize and will receive $75,000. The prize is supported by a grant from the McKesson Corporation.
We encourage hospitals wishing to apply for the 2012 prize to download the application directly from the AHA website. Applications are due October 9, 2011.
Five Customers Go Live on Horizon Enterprise Visibility
In the past few weeks, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital, Centra Health, Inc., Northwest Community Hospital, Vanguard Health Management, Inc. and Health Alliance of the Hudson Valley have gone live with Horizon Enterprise Visibility™. Congratulations to these customers for deploying an enterprise surveillance solution that synchronizes care delivery, keeping everyone involved focused on the patient.
2011 Most Wired Hospital Winners Featured in H&HN Magazine
The July cover story of Hospitals and Health Networks® (H&HN) magazine highlights this year’s award recipients of the Most Wired 2011 Annual Survey. Some 530 surveys were completed, representing 1,388 hospitals. This year’s results showed strong advances in CPOE by “Most Wired” hospitals. McKesson is a sponsor of the survey.
View the 2011 Most Wired Survey results.