Make informed health care decisions with Allina.com/quality
To find out how New Ulm Medical Center and Allina Hospitals & Clinics measure up on patient care, safety and satisfaction, go to www.allina.com/quality.
This is an example of a graph that patients can access through the Allina.com/quality website. The website tracks several quality of care areas.
Allina’s Chief Clinical Officer Penny Wheeler, MD, says the new part of Allina’s public website helps meet a growing demand for quality data online. "Today, 64 percent of consumers are using the Internet to find information about the quality of care, and we are committed to openness in showing our quality performance."
Allina.com/quality shows how well Allina is doing in these areas:
Patient satisfaction tracks how patients answered survey questions about their hospital stays or clinic visits.
Getting better rates hospitals’ success in meeting surgical care goals and treating heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia.
Keeping you safe explains efforts to ensure safe surgeries, prevent falls, and promote hourly rounding at Allina's hospitals.
Staying healthy shows how well Allina Medical Clinic is doing with well-child visits, treating colds and sore throats, and screening women for chlamydia.
Living with illness and disability presents data about Allina Medical Clinic patients receiving the best possible care for depression, diabetes and vascular disease.
Allina.com/quality also provides resources that can help you manage your health.
“Our patients deserve nothing less than the best care always. Our continued focus will help to achieve this,” says Wheeler.
2008 Awards
In 2008, New Ulm Medical Center received the following awards:
2008 MHA Patient Safety Excellence Award Safe Skin Campaign to prevent pressure ulcers
2008 MHA Patient Safety Excellence Award Safe from Falls Campaign to reduce patient falls in the hospital
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