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Article: Aurora Health Care Hospitals Achieve Top Performance in Nationwide Quality and Safety Initiative.
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- Science Letter
- Article date:
- November 3, 2009
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Five Aurora Health Care hospitals are among the top performers in a national quality and safety initiative that provides new evidence of the power of quality improvement efforts to both save lives and reduce costs (see also Aurora Health Care).
The initiative, QUEST: High-Performing Hospitals, is intended to act as a springboard for hospitals to reach new levels of performance and public reporting while informing the public policy debate over the future of health care.
The initiative's first-year results, announced, showed that the 157 not-for-profit hospitals participating in QUEST saved an estimated 8,043 lives and $577 million in costs.
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