2019 Aim for Excellence Compendium

Hospitals and health systems strive to provide high-quality care in a safe, timely, efficient, effective, equitable and patient-centered manner. The transformative changes taking place in health care today foster coordination across the continuum of care and collaborative partnerships among providers, patients and families. The Missouri Hospital Association, along with hospital leaders, providers and staff, are improving quality and safety in Missouri’s hospitals.

MHA’s Aim for Excellence Award recognizes Missouri hospitals’ innovation and outcomes related to the Triple Aim. The award is one of several means to highlight excellence, disseminate successful models of care and motivate improvement throughout Missouri hospitals and health systems. Recognizing different community settings and patient populations, the award is divided into three categories.

1. critical access and rural hospitals
2. small and large metropolitan statistical area hospitals
3. care collaboratives or health care systems

This year, 13 applications were submitted. We would like to acknowledge and thank our judges from academic and health-related backgrounds, who brought a high level of expertise to the evaluation. Based on overall aggregate scores, three MHA-member organizations were identified as winners, and three were chosen for honorable mention. These six hospitals, along with other high-scoring applicants, have agreed to share their quality improvement journeys.

Health care professionals are encouraged to review the compendium to identify best practices and lessons learned, and to recognize peers leading transformational improvement. Continued innovation among thought leaders is necessary in this rapidly advancing health care environment.

Please note that compendium content is derived from hospital applications and has been edited only for grammar and punctuation. In some cases, content has been condensed.

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