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Meadows Wins Top Award Again
March 14, 2007 -- For the second year in a row, Meadows Regional Medical Center has earned top national healthcare honors among small community hospitals.
The evaluation is done annually by Solucient, a healthcare management company headquartered in Evanston, Illinois, to identify the top 100 hospitals in the country.
Meadows and Piedmont Hospital in Fayetteville are the only two Georgia hospitals to make the list this year. In the southeastern United States, six other hospitals made the grade.
Meadows CEO Alan Kent says its a credit to the hospital's doctors and staff, "This is an external validation that we are performing very well in terms of processes and outcomes. It means you're a lot more likely to get the type of good outcome that you'd like to get in a hospital stay, and you're a lot less likely to have complications and infections that might occur in a healthcare organization."
Mike Calhoun, chairman of the board of the hospital's holding company, believes we're beginning to see results from the efforts which have been made to improve Meadows over the past few years. "We've invested millions of dollars into the infrastructure and technology of the hospital and it's certainly paying off now. Our medical staff is unrivaled in this area, and the services we provide are just excellent. That's obvious by the findings of Solucient. They have all these quality standards which they measure and Meadows Regional Medical Center came out on top once again," Calhoun says.
For information on the annual report, go to www.solucient.com.
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