SAN AUGUSTINE, TX, September 1, 2020… CHI St. Luke’s Health-Memorial San Augustine has been recognized as a finalist for the 2020 QUEST® Award for High-Value Healthcare by Premier Inc., a leading healthcare improvement company, for their outstanding work to improve healthcare quality.

 

“Our daily mission and vision is to help transform the level of care here in deep East Texas through high quality, appropriate and cost-effective care,” said Darlene William, VP of Operations.  “It is a true team effort and a testament to our commitment to being the best healthcare provider that we can be for our community.”

 

CHI St. Luke’s Health-Memorial San Augustine has been named a finalist of the QUEST® Award for High-Value Healthcare in the Top Performance Threshold (TPT) performance category.  The honor is given to hospitals who demonstrate top performance in four of the five areas measured in Premier’s Quest 2020 collaborative, including affordability, effective care and coordination, prevention and treatment for leading causes of mortality, person and family experience, and patient safety. 

 

Ashley London, Director of Patient Care Services, said, “CHI St. Luke’s Health-Memorial San Augustine is indeed a hidden treasure.  We value our small knit community and we work hard to provide our patients with the best patient care experience possible.”

“Along with our counterparts in the QUEST 2020 collaborative, we are charting the course to improve hospital quality and patient safety, while safely reducing costs,” Monte Bostwick, Market President & CEO of CHI St. Luke’s Health-Memorial, said.

 

Premier brings together 1,500 hospitals and health systems in multiple collaboratives, including QUEST, to leverage the power of collaboration on a national scale. Within these collaboratives, healthcare providers work with each other to develop, share and scale best practices that improve quality and safety, reduce costs and share risk. A recipient of The Joint Commission and National Quality Forum’s 2015 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award, QUEST was launched in 2008 to help health systems reliably deliver the most efficient, effective and caring experience for every patient, every time. Hospitals in Premier’s QUEST collaborative perform 29% better than non-Premier hospitals in achieving value-based purchasing payments.

The peer group improvement category is designed to recognize QUEST 2020 top performing hospitals based on size, patient mix and academic status. Each QUEST 2020 member was grouped into one of six categories: critical access hospitals, academics, teaching hospitals with more than 375 beds, teaching hospitals with fewer than 375 beds, non-teaching hospitals with more than 175 beds and non-teaching hospitals fewer than 175 beds. A top performer in each of the six peer groups was named a winner of the QUEST Award.