Ashley Regional Medical Center Earns 5-Star CMS Rating for Overall Hospital Quality
July 31, 2024
VERNAL, UT (July 31, 2024) – Ashley Regional Medical Center today announced that it has been awarded five stars in the latest round of Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Ashley Regional’s Overall Hospital Quality 5-Star Rating puts it among the top hospitals in the U.S. with respect to patient safety and the overall patient experience.
“Our team works to constantly evaluate and improve the care and experiences we provide our patients and their families,” said Alan Olive, chief executive officer of Ashley Regional Medical Center. “We are so proud to have received this recognition from CMS and look forward to continuing our efforts to enhance healthcare delivery and advance our mission of making communities healthier.”
The Star Ratings program is designed to increase healthcare transparency and help patients and their family members make informed decisions about healthcare. CMS’ Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings measure hospitals based on their performance across five quality areas: mortality, patient experience, readmissions, safety of care and timeliness and effectiveness of care.
Ashley Regional has launched several initiatives in recent years aimed at further enhancing the quality of care provided to patients, including bedside shift report where the patient, the nurse leaving the shift and the nurse starting the shift discuss ongoing care for the day and if anything happened overnight. Executive patient safety rounds also ensure patients are cared for and understand their care plan. Ashley Regional aims to create a Culture of Safety, which means the environment rewards teamwork, communication, accountability, learning and mutual respect. “We are honored to serve the healthcare needs of our communities,” Olive said. “We thank our providers, clinical teams and staff for their commitment to our patients and to one another. It is their dedication that made this five-star rating possible and that will continue to drive our quality improvement initiatives going forward.”
For more information on the Star Ratings Program, visit the CMS website at Medicare.gov. For more information on Ashley Regional Medical Center, visit AshleyRegional.com.
About Ashley Regional Medical Center
Through its 39-bed, Joint Commission-accredited acute care facility and physician practices, Ashley Regional Medical Center provides inpatient and outpatient services to the populations of Uintah, Duchesne and Daggett counties in Utah and Rio Blanco County in Colorado. Ashley Regional has been serving the Basin for more than 80 years and is a designated Level IV trauma center, an Accredited Chest Pain Center and has been designated as a Stroke Receiving Facility by the Utah State Department of Health. The healthcare workers provide safe, high-quality patient care across labor and delivery, surgery, imaging, outpatient care, the 24/7/365 emergency room and many other specialties. Ashley Regional has been recognized for excellence in quality indicators and measures, including being named a Top 100 Rural & Community Hospital for eight consecutive years by Chartis Center for Rural Health and a 100 Top Hospital by Fortune/PINC AI for two consecutive years.
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