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	The Premier Award for Quality recognizes national leaders in healthcare. The award is based on performance in patient care and operational efficiency. St. Patrick Hospital has repeatedly won the Premier Award for Quality.
	The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals award is given to the nation's top healthcare facilities using organizational performance data for the previous two years. St. Patrick Hospital has been recognized with this award consistently over the years.
	St. Patrick Hospital received the Environmental Leadership Circle Award from Practice Greenhealth. The Environmental Excellence Awards are meant to recognize healthcare facilities and organizations that have made a commitment to healthcare and the environment. These prestigious awards are made on behalf of the entire healthcare sector.
	The American Heart Association and American Stroke Association recognize this hospital for achieving at least two years of 85% or higher adherence to the Get with the Guidelines(SM) program quality indicators to improve quality of patient care and outcomes.
	St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center has earned the Gold Seal of Approval™ from The Joint Commission for Primary Stroke Centers.

• St. Patrick Hospital received the Healthy Hospital Award for saving $352,293 and diverting 5,413 pounds of medical waste from landfills in 2010. The ‘healthy hospital’ designation is reserved for hospitals that demonstrate outstanding efforts to reduce the environmental footprint of healthcare delivery and improve hospital quality through medical device remanufacturing and reprocessing.

2010 St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center Awards

• Outcomes Excellence Award for Cardiac Rehabilitation Program Award on April 29, 2010 from the Regional Cardiac Rehabilitation Montana Outcomes Project. This project is sponsored by the Montana Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation and the Cardiovascular Health Program within the Department of Public Health & Human Services. Of the 10 quality indicators evaluated, the St. Patrick Hospital Cardiac Rehabilitation Program exceeded the regional mean more often than any of all large or interventional hospitals from 12 states tracking and reporting a uniform set of quality indicators. This is the third consecutive year that St. Patrick Cardiac Rehabilitation has received this award.

• St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center Diabetes Care Services Accreditation, received accreditation from the American Association of Diabetes Educators in April 2010 signifying its compliance with the National Standards for Diabetes Self-Management Education (DSME). The overall objectives of DSME are to help patients make informed decisions, use appropriate self-care behaviors, solve problems and collaborate with the healthcare team and to improve clinical outcomes, health and quality of life.

• St. Patrick Hospital received an Honorable Mention as a Bicycle Friendly Business from the League of American Bicyclists. The Bicycle Friendly Business (BFB) program recognizes employers’ efforts to encourage a more bicycle friendly atmosphere for employees and customers. The program honors innovative bike-friendly efforts and provides technical assistance and information to help companies and organizations become even better for bicyclists.

• Partner for Change Award, Practice Greenhealth gave St. Patrick Hospital the Partner for Change Award, which recognizes healthcare facilities that continuously improve and expand upon their mercury elimination, waste reduction and pollution prevention programs. At a minimum, facilities applying for this award must be recycling 10% of their total waste, have a mercury elimination program in place with a plan for total elimination and have developed other successful pollution prevention programs. Practice Greenhealth is a non-profit group helping hospitals and healthcare facilities to operate with fewer environmental impacts. http://www.practicegreenhealth.org/awards/

• Environmental Leadership Circle Award, awarded May 16, 2010. The Environmental Leadership Award is the premier award recognizing healthcare facilities that exemplify environmental excellence and are setting the highest standards for environmental practices and sustainability in healthcare. To be considered, facilities must meet the criteria for the Mercury-Free Award, recycle at least 25% of their total waste, be leading the healthcare sector in innovation and sustainability, and be leaders in their community. It is offered by Practice Greenhealth, a non-profit group helping hospitals and healthcare facilities to operate with fewer environmental impacts. St. Patrick Hospital was inducted into the Environmental Leadership Circle in May, 2010.

2009 St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center Awards

• 2009 Ecostar Award October 2009

• 2009 Energy Star Award, Providence Center

• St. Patrick Hospital 2nd Place in Transportation Best Practices Awards by Missoula in Motion. Missoula in Motion’s Transportation Best Practices Award goes to businesses that have gone the extra mile in making a solid commitment to sustainable transportation programs.

• St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center receives Chest Pain Center Accreditation with PCI from the Accreditation Review Committee on July 13, 2009. The Chest Pain Center at St. Patrick Hospital has demonstrated its expertise and commitment to quality patient care by meeting or exceeding a wide set of stringent criteria and completing on-site evaluations by a review team from the Society of Chest Pain Centers. Key areas in which a
  Chest Pain Center must demonstrate expertise include:
• • Integrating the emergency department with the local emergency medical system
  • Assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients quickly
  • Effectively treating patients with low risk for acute coronary syndrome and no assignable cause for their symptoms
  • Continually seeking to improve processes and procedures
  • Ensuring Chest Pain Center personnel competency and training
  • Maintaining organizational structure and commitment
  • Maintaining a functional design that promotes optimal patient care
  • Supporting community outreach programs that educate the public to promptly seek medical care if they display symptoms of a possible heart attack

• St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center’s (Get With the Guidelines) GWTG Stroke Quality Performance Data Advances St. Pat’s to the GWTG Elite Award. The Elite Award is an advanced level of recognition that allows hospitals to be acknowledged for their compliance of the Quality Measures within the GWTG Stroke Program. This is an advanced level of recognition looking at several additional stroke measures beyond the Gold award and looks at a longer time period.

• St. Patrick Hospital Breast Center Awarded Three-Year Full Accreditation from October 2009 through October 2012 from the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers. This NAPBC is a program administered by the American College of Surgeons. Accreditation by the NAPBC is only given to those centers that have voluntarily committed to provide the highest level of quality breast care and that undergo a rigorous evaluation process and review of their performance. During the survey process, the center must demonstrate compliance with standards established by the NAPBC for treating women who are diagnosed with the full spectrum of breast disease. The standards include proficiency in the areas of: center leadership, clinical management, research, community outreach, professional education, and quality improvement. A breast center that achieves NAPBC accreditation has demonstrated a firm commitment to offer its patients every significant advantage in their battle against breast disease.
  Receiving care at a NAPBC-accredited center ensures that a patient will have access to:
  • Comprehensive care, including a full range of state-of-the-art services
  • A multidisciplinary team approach to coordinate the best treatment options
  • Information about ongoing clinical trials and new treatment options
  • Quality breast care close to home

• St. Patrick Hospital Receives Three-Year Full Accreditation as Chest Pain Center by the  Society of Chest Pain Centers

• St. Patrick Hospital Receives Monetary Award for Performance in CMS Premier Healthcare Alliance Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) Pay-for-Performance Project, St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center will receive the following awards:
  • Top Performer for AMI, CABG for a total of $20,232
  • Attainment Performance for AMI, CABG, PN for a total of $19,547

• St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center Receives Gold ADDY® Award for Color Newspaper Campaign. The Gold award was for the da Vinci “Just What the Doctor Ordered” print campaign.

• St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center Receives Gold and Silver Advertising Awards, awarded from the Healthcare Marketing Report’s Annual Healthcare Advertising Awards. The Gold award was for Television Ad/Single for the Women’s Care Center and the Silver award was for a Special Video Production for the Emergency Department Expansion.

• Sustainable Business Council Nonprofit of the Year—2009, Located in Missoula Montana, the Sustainable Business Council (SBC) supports businesses that would like to pursue more environmentally and socially sustainable practices, while maintaining or enhancing their economic viability. The award is given on behalf of all the green initiatives St. Pat’s has initiated. http://www.sbcmontana.org/programs/2009sustainabilityawardnominations.html
  (Given at the Stensrud Building, May 21, 2009)

• St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center Continues with the Second Get with the Guidelines (GWTG) Stroke Gold Award. Recognition as a Get With The Guidelines hospital provides tangible evidence of the hospital’s commitment to quality improvement. St. Patrick Hospital’s Stroke Program has been awarded a Gold Achievement Award by the American Heart/Stroke Association for continued quality improvement efforts in stroke care. Hospitals that receive the Gold Award must meet more that 85% on seven measures for at least two years. The performance measures include receiving medications to reduce the risk of secondary stroke and complications associated with stroke. Part of this award is being recognized in the U.S News and World Report Best Hospitals Issue for success in using Get With the Guidelines (SM), a quality improvement program that helps ensure that care for patients with stroke is aligned with the most up-to-date scientific guidelines.

• St. Patrick Hospital’s Cancer Program Awarded Outstanding Achievement Award. The Commission on Cancer (CoC) awarded St. Patrick Hospital’s Cancer Program the Outstanding Achievement Award (OAA) as a result of its 2008 accreditation survey. Ninety-five programs received the OAA as a result of surveys performed in 2008. This number represents 19 percent of the 478 programs surveyed during this period.
  The award is designed to recognize cancer programs that strive for excellence in providing quality care to cancer patients. To earn the OAA, a facility must demonstrate a commendation level of compliance with seven standards that form the basis of the OAA criteria and are drawn from the following areas of program activity:
  - Cancer committee leadership
  - Cancer data management clinical services
  - Research
  - Community outreach
  - Quality improvement
  
  In addition, the facility received a compliance rating for the remaining 29 cancer program standards. St. Patrick Hospital’s Cancer Program has been accredited since 1998 and now joins other prestigious hospitals such as Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and Swedish Health Services in Seattle in receiving the award

• Partner for Change Award, Practice Greenhealth gave St. Patrick Hospital the Partner for Change award, which recognizes healthcare facilities that continuously improve and expand upon their mercury elimination, waste reduction and pollution prevention programs. At a minimum, facilities applying for this award must be recycling 10% of their total waste, have a mercury elimination program in place with a plan for total elimination and have developed other successful pollution prevention programs. Practice Greenhealth is a non-profit group helping hospitals and healthcare facilities to operate with fewer environmental impacts. http://www.practicegreenhealth.org/awards/

• Making Medicine Mercury Free Award, Practice Greenhealth also awarded St. Patrick Hospital the Making Medicine Mercury-Free award, which recognizes facilities that have virtually eliminated mercury from their facilities and have made a commitment to continue to be “mercury free.” There is a specific list of criteria to accomplish in order to receive the award. Practice Greenhealth, is a non-profit group helping hospitals and healthcare facilities to operate with fewer environmental impacts. http://www.practicegreenhealth.org/awards/

• US Department of Health and Human Services Medal of Honor for Organ Donation for its high rate of organ and tissue donation.

• Providence Health & Services’ 2009 President’s Award for Excellence, St. Patrick Hospital Chronic Disease Prevention and Management Program –Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction Pilot was selected as Providence Health & Services’ 2009 President’s Award for Excellence, the highest award level. The project was “considered exceptional by achieving outstanding results from an excellent well-executed team effort that demonstrates a deep commitment to improve the service, care and outcomes for the communities we serve.” The top award, Excellence Award winning projects exhibit major achievements.

2008 St. Patrick Hospital and Health Sciences Center Awards

• CARF Accreditation In July of 2008, CARF (Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitations Facilities) accredited the following programs for three years:
  
  Inpatient Rehabilitation Programs - Hospital (Adults)
  Inpatient Rehabilitation Programs - Hospital (Children and Adolescents)
  Inpatient Rehabilitation Programs - Hospital (Stroke Specialty Program)
  
  This achievement is an indication of our organization's dedication and commitment to improving quality of life and continued pattern of excellence.

• US News Best Hospitals List, August of 2008, St. Patrick Hospital was one of six Providence Hospitals included in the U.S. News and World Report Best Hospitals list for 2008.  There are a total of 170 hospitals on the list (out of 5,453 hospitals considered).

• Medal of Honor/Crystal Award, 2008, St. Pat's received The Medal of Honor and the Crystal Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for its high rate of organ and tissue donation.  This is the third year in a row that St. Pat's has been honored.

• Partnership Recognition Award, May 2008, St. Pat's received the 2008 Partnership Recognition Award from Practice Greenhealth, which confers awards for eco-exemplary behavior of hospitals.

• Breast Imaging Center of Excellence, May 2008, the Broadway Imaging Center was designated as a Breast Imaging Center of Excellence for both Mammography and Breast Ultrasound by the American College of Radiology's Commission on Quality & Safety and the Commission on Breast Imaging.

• Blue Distinction Award, St. Patrick Hospital's Bariatric Program received the Blue Distinction Award for Bariatric Surgery from Blue Cross/Blue Shield.  St. Pat's is currently the only center in Montana who qualified as of April 2008.  Blue Distinction is a nationwide program that creates health care transparency for consumers and providers. 

• Energy Star Award, 2007, St. Patrick Hospital was awarded the Energy Star Award by the US Environmental Protection Agency.  The Energy Star is the mark of superior energy performance.

• Level II Trauma Verification- The American College of Surgeons has verified that St. Patrick Hospital has a Level II Trauma designation.

• Providence Health & Services Mission Award  In 2007, CATCH (Coordinated Approach to Child Health) was awarded the Providence Health & Services Mission Award.  CATCH is an evidence-based coordinated school health program designed to promote physical activity and healthy food choices for elementary school-aged children.