Grande Ronde Hospital selected as a 2021 Health Quality Innovator
By Braden Way on Monday, December 20th, 2021 in More Top Stories Northeastern Oregon News
LA GRANDE — (Information provided by Grande Ronde Hospital) Grande Ronde Hospital and Clinics (GRH) has been named a 2021 Health Quality Innovator of the Year. The Health Quality Innovator (HQI) Awards is the annual awards program created by HQI to recognize and celebrate organizations that are using successful, evidence-based approaches to quality improvement. This specific award category recognizes rural health care facilities that have made outstanding contributions to improving the quality of rural health care services.
“We’re incredibly humbled and proud to be recognized as a Health Quality Innovator of the Year,” said GRH President and CEO Jeremy Davis. “While we did not implement these programs and processes to win awards, it is gratifying to know that the work we do here in Union County to serve our community is recognized at this level. This is an ongoing collaborative effort among an incredible team of people all working together to improve the overall health of our community.”
Grande Ronde Hospital and Clinics was selected as the winner in the Rural Health category for implementing strategies and processes to improve access to care and support better outcomes for patients and families. Some of these include employing additional primary care providers, pediatricians, a psychiatrist, and behavioral health practitioners; implementing daily huddles involving the hospital and clinics; and transitioning three separate electronic medical record systems to a single system across the GRH care continuum. As a result, this hospital achieved low rates for readmissions of complex and chronic patients, as well as behavioral health patients. For more information on the award and all of the programs and initiatives, it covers, check out the latest issue of the GRH Life & Health newsletter.
