Driving Outcomes Across Our System
Since our inception, we have committed ourselves to improving healthcare quality in every hospital we own. IASIS Healthcare hospitals are accredited by DNV Healthcare and have received dozens of quality awards and specialty designations in the treatment of pneumonia, stroke, heart failure and many other conditions. Our achievements stem from cutting-edge quality initiatives that are integrated into every level of our organization, from the leadership suite, to hospital management, to our physicians and employees.

When a hospital joins IASIS, it has a special opportunity to participate in a one-of-a-kind quality program that is driven by physicians and staff. In 2007, IASIS took quality to a whole new level, making impressive improvements. We created the Hospital Medical Management and Quality ProgramTM (HMMQP), a sophisticated system of identifying and prioritizing goals that go well beyond basic requirements for quality reporting. The cornerstone of our program is a unique framework of collaboration and sharing of best practices among physicians, care providers, employees and leadership across the IASIS system.

Our physician partners follow evidence- based medicine practices, which power medical decisions based on the latest scientific care knowledge. The result is a single set of standardized quality guidelines for all IASIS hospitals, supported by our fully integrated clinical IT system.

Building A Best-Practice Quality infrastructure
While the HMMQP spans numerous operational processes, some of its key focus areas include:

• National Hospital Quality Inpatient and Outpatient Measures for Acute Myocardial Infarction, Pneumonia, Heart Failure and Surgical Infection Prevention
• Prevention of hospital-acquired conditions and never events
• Readmissions and mortality
• Admission process guidelines and order sets
• Patient care coordination and through-put
• Clinical documentation improvement
• Resource/efficiency management of clinical pharmacy, imaging, ICU, ED and surgical services
• Patient experience and satisfaction
• Hospitalist program
• Case management modeling
• Clinical risk management and patient safety strategies
• Infection prevention strategies
• Regulatory and accreditation continuous readiness assessment

Award Winning Care
Thomson Reuters, the company that compiles the list of The 100 Top Hospitals each year, singled out IASIS for special recognition in 2010. After three years of implementing HMMQP, IASIS had a wealth of data that showed remarkable results in a number of areas. Not only did IASIS win the prestigious Thomson Reuters Healthcare Advantage Award in the category of Clinical Improvement and Outcomes, we also were recognized as the winner of the Healthcare Advantage Award for Overall Performance in the Hospitals/Health Providers/Clinicians category.

Not all hospitals have the resources to dedicate toward continually improving healthcare quality. At IASIS, we believe our unique culture, along with a top-down, cross-sectional approach to quality will help us continue to achieve operational excellence.