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Pat Fritz, Wyoming Director
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June 25, 2019
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Wyoming Long-term Care Nursing Homes Receive Quality Health Care Awards
Casper, Wyo., (June 25, 2019) — Mountain-Pacific Quality Health is proud to announce the winners of the 2019 Nursing Home Quality Awards. Five Wyoming nursing homes received the top honor—the Recognition of Quality Excellence Award. Three nursing homes received the Recognition of Quality Achievement Award and seven nursing homes received the Innovator Quality Award.
Awards were presented on June 25, 2019 in Casper during the Wyoming Quality Health Care Conference. All award recipients showed their dedication to quality care by meeting the high-quality standards required to receive any award level.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) supports the National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative (NNHQCC) through the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) program. Mountain-Pacific is the local QIN-QIO for Wyoming.
The NNHQCC’s goals are to instill quality and performance improvement practices, eliminate healthcare-acquired conditions and improve resident satisfaction. To measure how well nursing homes are achieving these goals, CMS created a “composite score” system—the lower the score, the better. Mountain-Pacific’s Quality Awards are based on each facility’s composite score, its licensure with Wyoming’s state survey agency, the Office of Healthcare Licensing and Survey and its certification with CMS.
“Mountain-Pacific is honored to partner with Wyoming’s long-term care facilities to promote quality, compassionate care,” said Pat Fritz, Mountain-Pacific’s Wyoming director. “We appreciate the hard work and dedication of these nursing homes to deliver high-quality care to their residents and families.”
Five nursing homes received the Recognition of Quality Excellence Award, the top award:
- Crook County Health Services-LTC, Sundance
- Life Care Center of Casper, Casper
- Westview Care Center, Sheridan
- Life Care Center of Cheyenne, Cheyenne
- Poplar Living Center, Casper
Three nursing homes received the Recognition of Quality Achievement Award:
Seven nursing homes received the Innovator Quality Award:
- St. John’s Living Center, Jackson
- Weston County Health Services-LTC, Newcastle
- Life Care Center of Casper, Casper
- Powell Valley Care Center, Powell
- Cheyenne Regional Medical Center-TCU, Cheyenne
- Morning Star Care Center, Fort Washakie
- Crook County Health Services-LTC, Sundance
All Wyoming long-term care nursing homes are eligible for the Nursing Home Quality Awards. Mountain-Pacific thanks all Wyoming long-term care nursing homes for their dedication to providing safe, quality care.
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Developed by Mountain-Pacific Quality Health, the Medicare Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for Montana, Wyoming, Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. Pacific Territories of Guam and American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, under contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Contents presented do not necessarily reflect CMS policy. 11SOW-MPQHF-WY-C2-19-127
