Quorum Health Resources (QHR), the nation’s largest hospital management company and the seventh largest healthcare consulting firm in the United States, recently announced the winners of its 2011 Excellence in Leadership awards. Alvin Hoover, CEO of King’s Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven, Mississippi, was the recipient of QHR’s top honor: CEO of the Year.
Alvin Hoover and his management team are being celebrated for governing a thriving hospital,” said QHR President and CEO James L. Horrar. “Profitability has increased significantly with an impressive expansion and renovation project growing volume.”
Alvin’s success goes beyond numbers, as he has demonstrated humble, servant leadership to the Hospital Board and Staff. He has achieved trust among his constituents, while maintaining the highest ranking in leadership performance.
“Alvin’s leadership style and commitment to success serve as an example to us all,” Horrar concluded. “We’re proud to call him QHR’s CEO of the Year.”
Dr. Boyd and Dr. Clark
HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization, published a study finding King’s Daughters Medical Center is number one in Mississippi and among the top five percent in the nation for Prostatectomy Services.
This is the second year in a row (2010-2011) that King’s Daughters Medical Center received the HealthGrades Prostatectomy Excellence Award™.
The nation’s nearly 5,000 hospitals were all included in this sweeping study, which examined mortality rates and complication rates from government data over a three year period.
“We utilize the latest surgical techniques and as a result, we have excellent outcomes.
Another strong part of our success is that we have the same operative crew on each prostatectomy as well as the same post operative nurses on the surgical floor. These important team members have gained a great deal of experience in the care of prostate cancer patients over the last 15 years,” says Dr. Jeff Clark.
While Dr. Clark specializes in this operation, it is not the only treatment option offered by Brookhaven Urology. Dr. Clark and Dr. Boyd advise their patients on their best treatment options based on their age, co-morbidities, grade and stage of their cancer. Some patients will require a referral to other facilities if radiation or chemotherapy is required.
“The art of medicine is finding the right treatment for the right patient. That is why Dr. Boyd and I spend extra time with our initial cancer consultations. We want to make sure the patient and his family understands all of the treatment options,” Dr. Clark added.
“It is a great honor to be recognized with the prestigious 5 star award for quality,” says Alvin Hoover, CEO of King’s Daughters Medical Center. “This award reflects the stature of Dr. Jeff Clark and Dr. Jeffery Boyd among the urology community and puts KDMC at the top of all Mississippi hospitals, and among the elite providers of this service in the United States.”
The Thirteenth Annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America study, the largest annual report of its kind, analyzed patient outcomes from nearly 40 million Medicare hospitalization records over a three-year period.
Across all procedures studied, there was a 63 percent lower chance of experiencing inhospital complications in a 5-star hospital compared to the U.S. hospital average.
If all hospitals performed at the level of a 5-star hospital, 185,875 inhospital complications may have been avoided among Medicare patients over the three years studied.
The new 2011 HealthGrades hospital ratings are free to the public and are viewable at www.healthgrades.com.
HealthGrades’ hospital ratings and awards reflect the track record of patient outcomes at hospitals in the form of mortality and complication rates. Hospitals are rated independently based on data submitted to the federal government. No hospital can opt in or out of being rated, and no hospital pays to be rated.
King’s Daughters Medical Center employees Georgia Myers, Sharon Hughes and Jennifer May, members of the Mississippi Association of Healthcare Administrative Professionals, recently participated in a Christmas project for the Lincoln County Residential Center. Gifts and pizzas were provided to all of the residents.
Georgia Myers, a Brookhaven resident has been awarded the prestigious Certified Healthcare Administrative Professional (cHAP) Designation by the Association of Healthcare Administrative Professionals (AHCAP) of the American Hospital Association, the largest society dedicated to health care executive assistants.
Administrative Professionals who receive the cHAP Designation have met stringent requirements in education, direct professional experience and areas of professional development; and successfully completed the cHAP examination, demonstrating comprehensive knowledge of substantive skills that provide value and distinction in an increasingly competitive marketplace. Georgia is herein recognized for being among the elite in the critical and demanding field of healthcare administration.
Health care consumers and staff can be assured that cHAP Designees subscribe to a strict code of ethics, have access to the latest technology and are specialists in competencies performed regularly in practice that are considered vital to competent practice.
Georgia is a health care administrative professional with King's Daughters Medical Center in Brookhaven. She has been a member of the AHCAP since 2004. During her five years with AHCAP, Georgia has served as Membership Committee Chairman, Public Relations Committee Chairman, and Program Planning Committee Chairman. Ms Myers quote for success; “Add one grain per day to your heap so that you will learn from the power of ‘littles.”
