Thursday, September 20, 2007
Improvement award to go to Forum Health Northside
YOUNGSTOWN — The “for sale” sign is in front of Forum Health Northside Medical Center, but the hospital continues to impress.
Northside will receive a 100 Top Performance Improvement Leader award from Thomson Healthcare, a health care information products company, for the second year in a row.
Thomson will present the award to Forum Health officials next Wednesday.
Northside was recognized as one of 100 hospitals making the greatest progress in improving hospital-wide performance over a five-year period.
The 100 hospitals receiving the honor for setting national standards for consistent improvement in areas such as clinical outcomes, safety and hospital efficiency.
Despite its financial problems and Forum Health looking to sell Northside, the hospital has won the award two years in a row.
“The award, particularly as a second consecutive achievement, is proof that we are an evidence-based hospital,” said Lowell Johnson, interim president and chief operating officer of the Western Reserve Care System, a Forum Health subsidiary. “We constantly challenge ourselves and when we identify areas in need of improvement, we do not settle until we better them.”