Penn State Hershey Medical Center is one of just nine hospitals statewide to be recognized through the Hospital & Healthsystem Association of Pennsylvania’s 2015 Achievement Awards program. The program is designed to honor hospitals and health systems for their innovation, creativity and commitment to patient care.
HAP presented Penn State Hershey with an Optimal Operations Award for enhancing efforts to catch and report medical errors, and an In Safe Hands Award for efforts to reduce venous thromboembolism, a potentially fatal condition involving blood clots.
Penn State Health St. Joseph also earned recognition from HAP with a Community Champions Award for adoption of an innovative model of providing prenatal care that reduced premature and low-birth weight deliveries in the Berks Region.
The HAP Achievement Awards program highlights best practices that improve population health and the patient experience, while reducing health care costs. Entries were evaluated by a 15-judge panel representing the public and private sectors, health care and business organizations, and for-profit and nonprofit entities. A total of 12 awards were given from among 110 total submissions.
Read more about this year’s awards here.