Hospitals had to meet the criteria of one of three categories of participation to be named a Pioneer in Quality. Those categories and the hospitals included in them are listed below.
Expert Contributor
Hospitals in this category had to present at a Pioneers in Quality webinar or participate in the development of the Joint Commission’s electronic clinical quality measures this year.
- MedStar Georgetown University Medical Center (Washington, D.C.)
- SSM Good Samaritan Regional Health Center (Mt. Vernon, Ill.)
- The Nebraska Methodist Hospital (Omaha)*
- Orange Regional Medical Center (Middletown, N.Y.)
- Atrium Medical Center (Middletown, Ohio)
- Harborview Medical Center (Seattle)
Solution Contributor
Hospitals had to submit an electronic clinical quality measures solution or implementation story to the Joint Commission’s Core Measure Solution Exchange, a quality improvement tool promoting the sharing of performance measurement success.
- The Harrison Memorial Hospital (Cynthiana, Ky.)*
- Wooster (Ohio) Community Hospital
Data Contributor
These hospitals voluntarily transmitted 2015 electronic clinical quality measures data this year.
- Not-for-Profit Hospital Corp. (Washington, D.C.)
- Nanticoke Memorial Hospital (Seaford, Del.)
- Jennie Edmundson Memorial Hospital (Council Bluffs, Iowa)
- John H. Stroger, Jr., Hospital of Cook County (Chicago)
- The Harrison Memorial Hospital (Cynthiana, Ky.)
- Methodist Healthcare-Olive Branch (Miss.) Hospital
- Blue Ridge HealthCare Hospitals (Morganton, N.C.)
- Carolinas HealthCare System Anson (Wadesboro, N.C.)
- Carolinas HealthCare System Cleveland (Shelby, N.C.)
- Carolinas HealthCare System Kings Mountain (N.C.)
- Carolinas HealthCare System Lincoln (Lincolnton, N.C.)
- Carolinas HealthCare System NorthEast (Concord, N.C.)
- Carolinas HealthCare System Union (Monroe, N.C.)
- Carolinas HealthCare System University (Charlotte, N.C.)
- Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte, N.C.)
- Mercy Hospital (Charlotte, N.C.)
- The Nebraska Methodist Hospital (Omaha)
- Cortland (N.Y.) Regional Medical Center
- Salem (Ore.) Hospital
- Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC (Pittsburgh)
- UPMC Altoona (Pa.)
- UPMC Bedford Memorial (Everett, Pa.)
- UPMC East (Monroeville, Pa.)
- UPMC Hamot (Erie, Pa.)
- UPMC McKeesport (Pa.)
- UPMC Mercy (Pittsburgh)
- UPMC Northwest (Seneca, Pa.)
- UPMC Passavant (Pittsburgh)
- UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside (Pittsburgh)
- UPMC St. Margaret (Pittsburgh)
- Medical University of South Carolina Medical Center (Charleston)
- Methodist Healthcare Memphis (Tenn.) Hospitals
- EvergreenHealth (Kirkland, Wash.)
*These hospitals also qualified in the Data Contributor category.
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