NQF 2011 National Healthcare Quality Award to Reward Accountable Care

Annual Award Application Open through October

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Quality Forum (NQF) has opened the application period for its 2011 National Healthcare Quality Award, which recognizes exceptional organizational leadership and innovation to achieve national goals for quality improvement. The 2011 Award application is open through October 27, 2010.

NQF presents the Quality Award each year to exemplary healthcare organizations that are role models for achieving meaningful, sustainable quality improvement in healthcare. This year, the award will focus on clinical integration, care coordination, and the ability to achieve the best outcomes at the most affordable cost.  

"For 17 years, this award has celebrated the best of what's possible in our healthcare system and honored role models for achieving real quality improvement in healthcare," said Janet Corrigan, PhD, MBA, NQF president and CEO. "In 2011 we will honor a healthcare system that is not only committed to quality and has made a difference in its community, but that also provides high-value, coordinated, integrated care."

The 2011 Quality Award will be presented on September 14, 2011, in Washington DC.  

The NQF National Quality Healthcare Award recipient will be selected through a blinded review by a panel of jurors composed of stakeholders from across healthcare, including experts who represent purchasers, government, payers, health systems, providers, and consumers. NQF is accepting nominations to the award jury through October 18.  

Award application and jury nomination information is available on the NQF website.  

Previous recipients of the NQF National Quality Healthcare Award include North Shore–LIJ Health System, Memorial Hermann Healthcare System, Baylor Health Care Systems, HealthPartners, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Northwest Memorial Hospital, and Trinity Health.

The mission of the National Quality Forum is to improve the quality of American healthcare by setting national priorities and goals for performance improvement, endorsing national consensus standards for measuring and publicly reporting on performance, and promoting the attainment of national goals through education and outreach programs. NQF, a non-profit organization (qualityforum.org) with diverse stakeholders across the public and private health sectors, was established in 1999 and is based in Washington, DC.

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