Fort Madison Community Hospital: Best in Value Award.

FMCH HONORED AMONG NATION’S TOP HOSPITALS

Hospital Value Index™ Recognizes FMCH with Best in Value™ Award

FMCH Best in Value Award "Thank You" Ad

Fort Madison Community Hospital has been recognized with a 2009-2010 Hospital Value Index™: Best in Value™ Award, as a result of the study conducted by Data Advantage, LLC, the nation’s leader in measuring healthcare value. Fort Madison Community Hospital ranked among the top tier of all hospitals nationwide, achieving high marks in quality, affordability and efficiency and patient satisfaction.

Specifically, the Hospital Value Index™ recognized Fort Madison Community Hospital for:

- Best in Value Award™: Quality, Affordability & Efficiency, and Satisfaction
- Best in Value™: Superior Quality Merit Award
- Hospital Value Index™: Top 100
- Hospital Value Index™: Best in Region™
- Hospital Value Index™: Best in State-#1 in the State of Iowa

"We are proud of these honors at Fort Madison Community Hospital as they reinforces our commitment to providing quality care affordably," said Jim Platt, CEO, FMCH. “Our physicians, nurses and staff strive each day to make our hospital the leader in quality care, and these awards stand as a testament to their dedication and achievement of their goals.”

The Hospital Value Index™ is the first and only performance indicator to focus on the value hospitals provide to their community and utilizes the latest publicly available data, including Hospital Compare from July 2009, to recognize these accomplishments.

“Value is increasingly important to patients and consumers who decide which hospital they will access for care,” said Hal Andrews, CEO of Data Advantage. “The Hospital Value Index™ is the first award to recognize those hospitals providing exceptional value of care to their communities, and Fort Madison Community Hospital has achieved great results.”

The Hospital Value Index™ pulled data from approximately 4,500 general acute-care hospitals, serving approximately 30.1 million consumers. It defines a hospital’s “value” by its success in four critical areas:

Quality, including CMS’s Core Measures, patient safety and readmission rates;

Efficiency, including the relative measure of the cost to the hospital for providing services

Affordability, a relative comparison of prices charged for inpatient and outpatient services; and

Patient satisfaction as measured by HCAHPS.

The full Hospital Value Index™ study and list of findings can be found at www.HospitalValueIndex.com.

About Data Advantage, LLC
Data Advantage, LLC is a privately held healthcare information company that specializes in providing the healthcare and business communities with objective and comprehensive data solutions. The company has aggregated and compiled a warehouse of the most insightful information about healthcare utilization and maintains comprehensive benchmark data about the financial, operational and clinical performance of the U.S. hospital industry. For more information, visit www.data-advantage.com or call 866-996-3282.