Contact: Sara Quale
sara.quale@bannerhealth.com
(970) 810-6133
WORLAND, Wyo. (July 2, 2019) – Washakie Medical Center was awarded a 2019 Hospital Quality Excellence Award by Mountain-Pacific Quality Health during this years Wyoming Hospital Association Annual Meeting and Convention in Casper.
Quality awards are presented annually to Wyoming hospitals for their hard work and commitment to improving patient care. To earn the award, hospitals had to meet six categories of criteria including patient and family engagement activities, patient satisfaction and clinical care.
WMC is one of eight hospitals honored during this year’s Wyoming Quality Health Care Conference and has received the award for the past four years.
“Hearing from our patients and their families about their perceptions of care helps us to grow,” said Lisa Van Brunt, chief nursing officer at WMC. “To hear they are pleased with what we’re doing is rewarding.”
Deborah Fox, Washakie’s senior program manager for quality improvement, gathered data to submit for the award. Fox and Van Brunt accepted the award on behalf of WMC.
About Mountain-Pacific
Mountain-Pacific is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation and holds federal and state contracts that allow them to oversee the quality of care for Medicare and Medicaid members. Mountain-Pacific works within its region (Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific Territories of Guam and American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands) to help improve the delivery of health care and the systems that provide it. Mountain-Pacific’s goal is to increase access to high-quality health care that is affordable, safe and of value to the patients they serve. www.mpqhf.org
About Washakie Medical Center
Washakie Medical Center is a county-owned hospital in Worland, Wyo., operated by Banner Health, one of the nation’s largest nonprofit health care systems with 28 hospitals in six states. The hospital offers expanding technology to meet the needs of the Big Horn Basin residents. For more information, visit www.BannerHealth.com/Washakie.