Del Sol ONLY El Paso Hospital to Receive TMF Award of Excellence
Del Sol Medical Center has received the Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Award of Excellence from TMF Health Quality Institute, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Texas, making us the only hospital in El Paso to receive this distinguished award.
Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Awards honor Texas hospitals that perform quality initiatives aimed at improving outcomes in patient care, are active in quality improvement and have made the required improvement on a composite scoring system called the Appropriate Care Measure (ACM). For acute care hospitals, the ACM consists of 24 quality indicators: eight AMI, four heart failure, seven pneumonia and five surgical care measures.
Out of 227 participating Texas hospitals, Del Sol was one of 27 presented with the distinguished Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Award of Excellence. “We know that using proven standards of care can save lives,” said Cindy Stout, Del Sol’s Chief Nurse Officer. “We will continue to enhance our quality improvement efforts through our collaboration with partners and with the TMF Health Quality Institute to ensure that every person gets the right care at the right time, every time.”
To achieve this recognition, Del Sol had to demonstrate significant improvement across several national quality measures. Our success illustrates our commitment to patient safety and to delivering quality health care,” said Jacob Cintron, Del Sol’s Chief Executive Officer. “It was a significant amount of work, but well worth it because it was the right thing to do for our patients.”
Our sister hospital, Las Palmas, along with University Medical Center (formerly Thomason), received Achievement Awards. No other hospitals in El Paso were recognized.