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November 23, 2009

Prevea Health Wins National Improvement Award

Green Bay, Wis. —Prevea Health is proud to announce that Press Ganey Associates Inc. has named it a 2009 Success Story Award Winner. Press Ganey partners with more than 10,000 health care facilities to measure and improve the quality of their care, and their bottom line. The company’s databases are the largest in the industry, and allow facilities nationwide to benchmark their results against peer organizations. The most successful organizations are honored annually in one of six categories. The Success Story Award recognizes facilities that have demonstrated leadership, implemented organizational change, and increased customer satisfaction. Prevea Health is one of six organizations to have received this honor, and is the only medical practice (non-hospital) client winner.

Members of Prevea Health, including President & CEO Dr. Ashok Rai, were on hand this week in Washington, D.C., to receive the award. Dr. Rai congratulated Prevea Health physicians and staff on the achievement. "We have demonstrated successfully, through our improved Press Ganey scores, that we can initiate change, improve patient care, and increase physician and employee satisfaction. That is key. We are able to provide some of the best health care in the country without sacrificing that personal and quality connection with the patient."

"It’s a great story to tell," said Eric Dordel, Customer Service Manager for Prevea Health, when asked why Prevea received the award. "We were able, in just two years, to re-define the patient experience, implement the change, and see real results."

Richard B. Siegrist, Jr., Press Ganey’s president and CEO noted, "We are proud partners of Prevea Health. Their innovative approach to patient satisfaction helps to drive change in northeast Wisconsin and throughout all of health care."

For more than twenty years, Press Ganey provided insight that allows health care organizations to improve the quality of care they provide and their financial performance. The company offers the largest comparative customer feedback databases, actionable data, solution resources, and customer service. Press Ganey currently partners with more than 10,000 health care facilities—including over 40% of US hospitals—to measure and improve the quality of their care.

About Prevea Health
Prevea Health’s mission is to take care of people with passion, pride, and respect. Founded in 1996, Prevea Health partners with St. Mary’s and St. Vincent Hospitals in Green Bay, and St. Nicholas Hospital in Sheboygan to provide access to more than 200 providers in over 50 specialty areas. Prevea’s 18 locations are throughout metropolitan Green Bay and in Marinette, Oconto, Plymouth, Pulaski, Seymour, Sheboygan and Sturgeon Bay. Visit www.prevea.com for more information.

About St. Nicholas Hospital
St. Nicholas Hospital is the recipient of the 2009/2010 HealthGrades Outstanding Patient Experience Award™. St. Nicholas Hospital is rated among the Nation's top 5% of hospitals for patient experience and one of only 211 facilities in the country to achieve this distinction two years in a row.

St. Nicholas Hospital is a non-profit hospital sponsored by the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis located at 3100 Superior Avenue, Sheboygan, Wisconsin. Their mission and vision is to provide family-centered, compassionate care without regard for race, creed, or ability to pay. This is achieved through the core values of respect, care, competence, and joy.

To learn more, visit www.stnicholashospital.org .

CONTACT: Tracy Heaser
Marketing, Communications Coordinator
Prevea Health
P.O. Box 19070
Green Bay, WI, 54307-9070
Work: 920-459-1752
Cell: 920-819-1798
tracyh@prevea.com

 

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