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Today, Florida Hospital announced that three of its campuses have been recognized by the Premier Inc. healthcare alliance as winners of the Premier Award for Quality in the area of Heart Failure.  The recognized campuses are Florida Hospital Apopka, Florida Hospital East Orlando, and Florida Hospital Celebration Health. 

Representatives from each Florida Hospital campus accepted the awards at the 2006 Premier Annual Breakthroughs Conference & Exhibition in Orlando this morning.

“Florida Hospital is committed to consistently providing the best quality health care services to our patients and extending our healing ministry to those patients,” said Dr. Lee Adler, vice president and chief quality and safety officer at Florida Hospital. “Receiving this prestigious award specifically recognizes our efforts in our cardiac services area and demonstrates our commitment to quality and efficient health care in our hospitals.”

The Premier Award for Quality is based on quality and cost data regularly submitted to Premier for reporting and benchmarking purposes. The award is distinguished by its consideration of performance-based criteria, including clinical quality outcomes, clinical process indicators and resource utilization outcomes.

“The Premier Award for Quality honors clinical excellence in both quality of care and operational efficiency, differentiating its winners as industry leaders that deliver outstanding patient care while reducing the cost of healthcare by improving resource utilization,” said Stephanie Alexander, senior vice president and general manager of Premier Healthcare Informatics.

Hospitals that submitted data to Premier’s Perspective™  clinical comparative database, the largest clinical comparative database in the nation, between October 2004 and September 2005, were eligible to receive the 2006 Premier Award for Quality.

About Premier, Inc. and Healthcare Informatics
Premier, Inc. is a strategic healthcare alliance that provides an array of performance solutions to hospitals and other providers. Premier’s Healthcare Informatics unit offers performance measurement, benchmarking, and reporting products and related advisory services and methodologies to support health systems’ and hospitals’ quality improvement efforts. Among its products and services, Premier Healthcare Informatics offers the Advisor Suite™ of clinical and operational performance measurement and reporting solutions; best practice methodologies to directly implement quality improvement programs; project-specific guidance; and on-site expertise to support improvement of clinical outcomes and efficiency of care. Areas of expertise include JCAHO and CMS performance measurement, clinical and operational benchmarking, labor management programs, balanced scorecards, patient satisfaction, evidence-based research, and patient safety. For more information about Premier Healthcare Informatics, visit www.premierinc.com/informatics or call 800.805.4608.

About Florida Hospital
Opened in 1908, Florida Hospital is one of the largest not-for-profit hospitals in the country, caring for more than a million patients per year – that’s more than any other hospital in the country, according to the American Hospital Association.  The 1,797-bed system, comprised of seven hospitals and 16 Centra Care walk-in medical centers, has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the best hospitals in the country for the past seven years.  Owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Florida Hospital is a Christian, faith-based hospital that believes in extending the healing ministry of Christ to all patients and caring for their emotional and spiritual needs in addition to their physical condition.