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SCH Receives 2009 Michigan Rural Health Quality Improvement Achievement Award

Updated: December 15, 2009

Article Picture Sheridan Community Hospital has received the Michigan Center for Rural Health's 2009 Michigan Rural Health Quality Improvement Award for Quality Improvement Achievement. The award acknowledges quality improvement efforts in assuring the patients’ stability and safety when being transferred to a different hospital.  

This is the first year that the Michigan Center for Rural Health has offered this award. Sheridan Community Hospital applied evidence-based medicine to improve care processes in effective communication  to other hospitals when a patient needs to be transferred.  “The Emergency Room staff worked as a team to obtain a higher than 95% compliance score with all seven measures,  said Betsie Edwards, Director of Nursing & Quality Improvement.  “This ensures our patients get the best care every time, all the time.”  

“Award recipients are committed to providing their patients with high quality health care,” said John Barnas, Executive Director, of the Michigan Center for Rural Health. Barnas added “The Michigan Center for Rural Health is pleased to sponsor this award which is a testament to the dedication of hospital staff to provide the right care to the right patient each and every time.”
Sheridan Community Hospital established a multidisciplinary team who worked to identify opportunities to improve processes and create interventions that embraced evidence-based medicine to apply the best available evidence gained from the scientific method to medical decision making in assuring appropriate, safe transfers from the ER.  Clinical indicators were based on the Appropriate Care Measure (ACM). ACM is a composite score that captures whether or not a patient received all the care that he or she was eligible to receive. The 2009 Michigan Rural Health Quality Improvement Award – Quality Improvement Achievement Award was based on an ACM score of 80 to 93%.

“Together our staff is demonstrating that we are providing the very best in medical care,” said Kevin Cawley, CEO.  “SCH is committed to the tenets of quality improvement that embrace evidence-based medicine to improve health outcomes.  Once again I am very proud of our hospital team for this achievement.”
Sheridan Community Hospital was honored by The Michigan Center for Rural Health at an awards ceremony during the 10th Annual Michigan Critical Access Hospital Conference October 29, 2009 in Boyne Falls, Michigan. The Michigan Center for Rural Health is a non-profit organization formed in 1991 as part of a nation-wide, federal and state initiative to recognize the importance of rural health care and to create a mechanism for resources to flow to rural areas.



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