We did it again!!

PSF Named HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals – 3rd Year in a Row!

HealthGrades – the leading independent health care ratings organization in the country – announced today that Penrose-St. Francis Health Services is one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals for 2010. 

The award places PSF in the top 1 percent of all hospitals in the nation and marks the third year in a row that we have garnered the prestigious honor.  We are also the only hospital in Colorado to receive the designation for the past three years.

This map shows states with Top 50 hospitals.

Who else won?

Special Celebrations!!

Trophy Presentation/Cake & Ice Cream
 
We are the only recipient of HealthGrades America's 50 Best Hospitals award in Colorado for the past three years (2008 - 2010) and are ranked among the top 1 percent in the nation for overall clinical excellence for the past three years.  
 
This calls for a celebration!   

Join us as we celebrate our success and hard work! 
On March 17, in the cafeteria at Penrose Hospital  beginning at 11:30 a.m and at SFMC at 12:30 p.m. , we will take time to recognize all of our achievements with cake and ice cream. 
Chri s Boyer, HealthGrades Consultant, will be present at the festivities to award our trophy. 
Cake and Ice cream will also be served at SFHC. Work nights? We didn't forget you. Cake and ice cream will be served at both Penrose and SFMC during the night shift.

Watch for more details as we get closer.

We're proud to work here!!

Associates, volunteers and physicians from throughout the organization celebrate this exciting achievement...



Andi McDonough, Manager, Outpatient Therapy 



"I think it's awesome!  We're all about the needs of the patient, and this award shows the high standard of care we strive to achieve."
-- Akeeda Woodson, Business Support, SFMC PACU

Jill Clark, Executive Office



"I'm proud to work here and it's good to know I work for an organization being nationally recognized.  The staff here is great, and we provide excellent quality of care.
-- Ashley Morgan, CNA at SFMC Birth Center

Dr. Glen House, Rehabilitation



"This is a great place to work and volunteer.  SFMC is a lovely facility and the people here and wonderful to work with.
-- Judy DeBuse, SFMC Volunteer

Bonnie Johnson, Volunteer at Penrose Hospital



"It's amazing we've won three years in a row!  I've worked at six hospitals and this is by far the best, and I'm thrilled to be a part of it."
-- Kathleen Woodard, Manager, SFMC NICU & Peds

Leslie Schwender, Spiritual Care



"The award reaffirms what we've known for a long time, and that is we provide superb patient care.  It's a source of pride for us."
-- Mark Hartman, SFMC VP of Operations



"I think it's fantastic!  I often hear great things in the community about the high quality of care provided at our facilities.  Penrose-St. Francis treats the volunteers great, and this award makes me proud to be part of the team."
-- Marvie Randall, SFMC Volunteer, who was born at Glockner Sanitarium and whose grandfather was one of the first patients of the original St. Francis Hospital in the early 1900s.



Charlie Stine, Director, Rehabilitiation Services

It's our ad...

Hey, That's Our Ad!
You'll see the attached ad printed in upcoming editions of the Colorado Springs Gazette, Woodmen/Cheyenne Editions and Colorado Springs Independent.  Enjoy, and congratulations!

Check out our video...

There is a 2-minute video on our Web site about this achievement. Click on the link below to view the video.

http://www.penrosestfrancis.org/index.php/970/Awards-Honors

PSF In the News!!

In case you missed it, this article is in today's Gazette.

Penrose-St Francis named one of the nation's best
BILL REED - Gazette
2/22/10

Penrose-St. Francis Health Services has been named one of HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals, the only hospital in Colorado to receive the distinction.

This is the third year in a row Penrose has received this honor. The rating is based on health outcomes — to put it simply, you are less likely to die or face complications in these top hospitals.

“There’s the intention of being excellent, and then there’s the actual outcome,” Penrose president and CEO Margaret Sabin said. “It’s hard to argue with outcomes.”

She credited the hospital’s success to a medical staff that supports and challenges each other, the mutual respect between doctors and nurses, and investment in medical technology.

HealthGrades, an independent health care ratings organization, looks at 26 common procedures and diagnoses, crunching the data on how many patients die or face major complications.

The best 5 percent among the nation’s 5,000 nonfederal hospitals are then judged based on which institutions have been consistently good over a number of years. The top 1 percent of America’s hospitals are singled out for honors.

Sabin said it would be possible to game the system, by transferring the most risky cases to big hospitals in Denver. But she said Penrose is taking on more risk in recent years, by transferring fewer cases to Denver, taking on more tough cases from smaller hospitals in southern Colorado, and increasing the acuity of its case-mix.

“I’m so incredibly proud of this honor, but I also know it means you need to continue that culture of excellence,” Sabin said.

With that, she quickly transitioned from the good news to the areas she hopes to improve at Penrose, including the patient experience at the hospital, and providing wellness care to keep people from becoming patients.

Apparently, excellence doesn’t allow for complacency.