Schedule of Events

4:00 pm – Knapp Medical Center Foundation Memory Garden Ribbon Cutting
4:15 pm – Knapp Medical Center 50th Anniversary Time Capsule Closing
4:30 pm – Health Fair and 50th Anniversary Reception
5:30 pm – Program and $50 Door Prize Winner Announced

Fun Giveaways

50 Pennies – 50 cents to one community winner and one employee winner
50 Nickels – $2.50 to one community winner and one employee winner
50 Dimes – $5.00 to one community winner and one employee winner
50 Quarters – $12.50 to one community winner and one employee winner
50 Dollars – to one community winner and one employee winner

The Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Awards honor Texas hospitals that are performing quality initiatives aimed at improving outcomes in patient care by recognizing those hospitals that have improved their performance on specific national quality measures.

Knapp representatives accepted the hospital’s Bronze Award from TMF Health Quality Institute during a special ceremony in Austin, Texas on May 3, 2012. Pictured from left to right are Autis Cobb, House Supervisor; Cathy Petros, Infection Control Director; Jim Summersett III, President/CEO; Ginger Robles, Quality Management Director; and Marcia Patterson, Medical/Surgical Director.

“To achieve this recognition, we had to demonstrate significant improvement across several national quality measures. Our success illustrates our commitment to patient safety and to delivering quality health care,” said Jim Summersett, Knapp president/CEO. “It was a significant amount of work, but well worth it because it was the right thing to do for our patients.”

The awards acknowledge hospitals for improving care related to heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care. These clinical areas have been designated as national health care priorities by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and The Joint Commission, an independent nonprofit, standards-setting and accrediting body in health care. The awards recognize hospitals that are active in quality improvement and have made the required improvement on a composite scoring system, called the Appropriate Care Measure, or ACM. For acute care hospitals the ACM consists of 27 quality indicators: 7 AMI, 4 heart failure, 6 pneumonia and 10 surgical care measures. Critical access hospitals used an ACM score based on 10 quality indicators: 4 heart failure and 6 pneumonia measures.

To earn the Bronze Award, a hospital had to achieve or maintain performance between 80 and 90 percent on the Appropriate Care Measure and to have met all other awards requirements. These included collecting data on quality indicators for four rolling quarters beginning October 1, 2010, having mortality scores within the projected range and submitting the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey (HCAHPS) data.

“TMF is proud to recognize Knapp Medical Center for promoting quality improvement activities and your senior management for promoting a quality culture,” said Tom Manley, CEO of TMF Health Quality Institute. “Quality improvement is a complex and demanding process and we thank all of you for your commitment to improving the health of your community and the efficiency of health care in our state.”

TMF Health Quality Institute established the awards program in partnership with the Texas Hospital Association, Texas Medical Association, Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals and Texas Osteopathic Medical Association.