Founded by the community to serve the community, Dignity Health Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital has always been a place where caregivers aim to provide their neighbors with the most exceptional care possible. Today, SNMH is recognized nationally for the quality of care provided inside its walls.
Over the past year, the hospital has been honored with two of the highest awards hospitals can receive for the quality and safety of the care provided.
In December of 2023, SNMH was named a Top Rural Hospital by the Leapfrog Group, a national patient safety organization that objectively ranks hospitals across the United States for the safety and quality of the care they provide. Only 15 hospitals from across the country received this award, and Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital was the only hospital in California to be named a Top Rural Hospital.
More recently, SNMH was given five stars by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the federal government agency that is responsible for the Medicare and Medicaid programs that together fund the medical care of the majority of patients in the United States. The five star recognition places SNMH in the top 8% of hospitals in the country and places the hospital on a list of only 36 hospitals in California receiving five stars, among organizations like Stanford, UCSF, UCLA and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.
More locally, one month ago, SNMH was recognized as one of the top hospitals in the state with inclusion on the Cal Healthcare Compare Honor Rolls for opioid care and patient safety, recognizing SNMH’s great work in preventing deaths in our community from opioid overdoses, as well as the fact that it is one of the very safest hospitals at which to receive care, both in the state and nationally.
“Awards and recognitions for patient safety and quality of clinical care use objective criteria to compare our outcomes with those of hospitals across the country, providing an outside objective measure as to just how good the care we provide really is,” explains Scott Neeley, MD, President and CEO, Dignity Health Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital. “I can spend all day talking about how great the care at SNMH is, but what these awards do is to provide objective evidence to back up these claims.”
Dr. Neeley shares that recent data suggests around one-third of hospitalized patients experience an error in the delivery of their care that has the potential to cause harm.
“What these awards objectively confirm is that patients are actually safer receiving care at SNMH than they are at the vast majority of hospitals in this country,” he says. “For example, our results demonstrate that only a tiny handful of hospitals in this country, less than 10%, are as effective at preventing dangerous hospital acquired infections as we are. We work hard to provide the best and safest care to our community, and these awards and recognitions validate the fact that these efforts are paying off for our patients.”
Dr. Neeley points out that at the heart of the quality of care provided by the hospital are the doctors, nurses and staff members who work tirelessly and focus not just on quality, but also compassion.
“They are dedicated to our mission of providing exceptional care to the members of our community, and to delivering that care with love,” he says. “Administrators can set the tone for an organization, and they can provide the resources needed to deliver care to patients, but it is our front line caregivers who actually provide that care, and who, more than anyone else, own these recognitions and deserve to feel proud of the fantastic work that they do on behalf of our community.”
Dr. Neeley encourages the community to take pride in the quality of care provided by their community hospital.
“What these awards tell the communities of Nevada, Yuba, and Sierra Counties, is that they can feel absolutely confident that when they come to us in need, or when they bring their loved ones to us for care, that we are doing everything in our power to deliver the safest and the highest quality care that is available — anywhere,” he says. “Robots, AI platforms, and laser devices do not deliver medical care —human beings do. It is only through an intentional and ever-present focus on the human element in health care that we are able to consistently deliver care that is exceptional from a technical standpoint and built upon our unique foundation of compassion and humankindness.”
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Publish date : 2024-09-25 05:30:00
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