Dignity Well being Medical Community — Santa Cruz, Dignity Well being Mercy Medical Group Honored for Offering Excessive-quality, Reasonably priced, Affected person-Centered Care

Dignity Well being Medical Community — Santa Cruz and Dignity Well being Mercy Medical Group are recipients of the 2022 Excellence in Healthcare Award from the Built-in Healthcare Affiliation (IHA) for high efficiency on medical high quality, affected person expertise and value measures. Dignity Well being Mercy Medical Group additionally scored within the high 10% in medical high quality for his or her industrial HMO populations.

A key part of IHA’s statewide Align. Measure. Carry out. (AMP) Program, the Excellence in Healthcare Award, acknowledges supplier organizations that carry out within the high 50 % in all three main AMP areas: medical high quality, affected person expertise, and whole price of care. 

Of the almost 200 supplier organizations statewide taking part within the AMP Program, solely 27 attained Excellence in Healthcare Award efficiency requirements for 2022, primarily based on AMP outcomes for measurement 12 months 2021. 

“We’re honored to be acknowledged for our work to ship high-quality, inexpensive care,” mentioned Steven Magee, MD, President of Santa Cruz Medical Group. “Receiving this recognition is a direct results of the collective effort from our complete care crew to guarantee an distinctive expertise for our sufferers.“

IHA honors supplier organizations with the best ranges of efficiency for every AMP Industrial HMO measurement area. Particularly, the High Ten % Efficiency recognition acknowledges doctor organizations that obtain the ninetieth percentile or above within the Scientific High quality, Affected person Expertise, and/or Complete Value of Care domains – i.e., the Triple Intention – for his or her industrial HMO members. Dignity Well being Mercy Medical earned this award within the “Scientific High quality” class.

“Congratulations to the whole Dignity Well being Mercy Medical Group crew for incomes this nice distinction,” mentioned Alan Shatzel, DO, MBA, CEO of Dignity Well being Mercy Medical Group. “These recognitions mirror our dedication to ship high-quality coordinated care in a method that improves the well being of our sufferers and likewise reduces the whole price of take care of these we serve.”

The awards have been offered on Dec. 8 at IHA’s Annual Stakeholders’ Convention. To be taught extra about AMP and the IHA, please click on right here.