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Hancock, Mich 5/23/17 – UP Health System – Portage is pleased to announce it has received MPRO’s 2017 Governor’s Award of Excellence for Increasing Identification of Behavioral Health Conditions.
This year, more than 100 Michigan hospitals, physician practices, nursing homes, inpatient psychiatric facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, home health agencies and community-based organizations were honored with the Governor’s Award of Excellence. This award recognizes participants for their dedication and success in improving healthcare quality and patient safety in Michigan. To be eligible for the award, participants must have achieved, maintained and continually improved in specific and rigorous milestones related to the award they received.
“We are fortunate to be able to partner with UP Health System – Portage and all the other dedicated organizations across the state of Michigan,” said MPRO President and CEO Leland Babitch, M.D., MBA. “To be able to recognize these outstanding accomplishments with the Governor’s office highlights the importance of improving healthcare quality in our state.”
The Governor’s Award of Excellence was first developed in 2003. The current award is based upon work from 2015-2016 in the following areas:
- Improving coordination of care
- Improving heart health
- Increasing adult immunizations
- Lowering the risk of infection in hospitals
- Effective reporting and measurement
- Improving care in nursing homes
- Increasing identification of behavioral health conditions
- Improving diabetes management
“We are proud to help our community. Our goal is to make everyone in the Keweenaw as healthy as possible. Receiving this award from the State of Michigan was an honor.” said Kelly Aho, RN, CDE, Clinical Education Coordinator.
Award recipients were honored May 10, 2017 at Eagle Eye Golf Course in Bath Township, MI. For more information about the Governor’s Award of Excellence, including a list of winners, visit http://www.mpro.org/gae2017.
About UP Health System – Portage
UP Health System – Portage supports a multi-specialty group of over 40 physicians, over a dozen allied health professionals and has been serving the Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan since 1896. The main campus is a 36-bed hospital, a verified chest pain center through the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care (SCPC) and possesses the area’s only Open Bore MRI. UP Health System – Portage was home to the first Level III ACS (American College of Surgeons)-verified trauma center and emergency department in the state.
Other services include a dedicated physician for hospital stays, cardiopulmonary, arthroscopic surgery, emergency orthopaedics, sports medicine, x-ray & diagnostics certified sleep disorder center, Express Care walk-in clinic, regional dialysis unit, pharmacy, 64-slice CT scanner, nuclear imaging, digital mammography, radiological and laboratory services, rehab, home care and hospice, and a 60-bed senior living community.
About MPRO
MPRO is a nonprofit organization and national leader in healthcare quality improvement and medical review. Our goal is simple – we are helping healthcare get better. MPRO provides medical consulting and review, as well as data analysis to federal agencies, state Medicaid and public health organizations, healthcare facilities, private health plans and other third party payers. For more information about MPRO, visit www.mpro.org. In addition, MPRO represents Michigan in Lake Superior Quality Innovation Network (QIN), which also serves Minnesota and Wisconsin under the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Quality Improvement Organization Program (QIO). For more information about Lake Superior QIN, visit www.lsqin.org.
