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South
Texas Rehabilitation Hospital Recognized as One
of the Top 10 Percent of All Inpatient Rehabilitations
Facilities in the United States for Second Year
Cited for care that is effective, efficient, timely and patient-centered
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(Brownsville, TX, July 8, 2008) --
South Texas Rehabilitation Hospital, is pleased
to announce that for the second consecutive year it ranked in the
top 10 percent of 804 inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs)
that were ranked in the IRF database of Uniform Data System for
Medical Rehabilitation (UDSMR).
“We’re thrilled to be recognized two years in a row,” said
Jessie Eason Gonzales, CEO. “This only highlights the level
of rehab care that Brownsville can provide and demonstrates our
commitment to our guiding principles and our patients.”
The rankings were determined by using UDSMR’s new program
evaluation model (PEM), a case mix-adjusted and severity-adjusted
tool that provides facilities with a composite performance score
and percentile ranking drawn from nearly three-quarters of all
IRFs in the country. UDSMR’s PEM Report Card uses the indicators
of efficiency and effectiveness contained in the Inpatient Rehabilitation
Facility Patient Assessment Instrument (IRF-PAI), the Centers for
Medicare and Medicaid Services’ reporting tool for the Inpatient
Rehabilitation Facility Prospective Payment System (IRF PPS). The
goal of the PEM Report Card is to recognize high-performing facilities
for their delivery of quality patient care that is effective, efficient,
timely, and patient-centered.
"We are pleased to present
this award to South Texas Rehabilitation Hospital in recognition
of the excellent care it provides to its patients,” said
Dr. Sam Markello, Associate Director of UDSMR. “As the creator
and caretaker of the nation’s largest database of rehabilitation
outcomes, and with 20 years of experience and data, we have long
worked with the industry to establish best practices. We developed
the PEM Report Card as a tool to identify and recognize facilities
that perform at a high level, to work with them to learn how they
achieve high performance, and to share what we learn with others
to elevate the performance of all. We look forward to working with
South Texas Rehabilitation Hospital and the 82 other facilities
across the country that rank in the top 10 percent to improve care
in all inpatient rehabilitation facilities.”
The Inpatient Medical Director of South Texas Rehabilitation Hospital
said he is excited to be part of a team of such caring and compassionate
individuals.
"Rehab in a hospital setting is the most integral part of
a patient’s
recovery and can help patients return home with a renewed independence,” said
Christopher Wilson, MD.
This is the second year that UDSMR has issued these awards. The
PEM Report Card was developed as part of a proactive solution to
the Institute of Medicine’s 2006 recommendation to Congress
that every Medicare provider be reimbursed on a pay-for-performance
basis. The data used for this report was based on 12 months of
2007 data, drawn from both Medicare and non-Medicare patients.
The results were weighted and combined into a single composite
score, and each facility was assigned a percentile rank from 0
to 100 relative to the other IRF subscribers in UDSMR’s database.
The resultant distribution of the facility PEM scores for UDSMR’s
IRF subscribers exhibited a normal distribution.
South Texas Rehabilitation Hospital is a 40-bed facility designed
solely for the provision of specialized rehabilitative care for
patients with functional deficits as a result of debilitating illnesses
or injuries. The hospital has been in operation since May 2005.
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About UDSMR:Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSMR)
is a division of UB Foundation Activities Inc., a not-for-profit
corporation affiliated with the University at Buffalo, The State
University of New York. Founded in 1988, UDSMR administers the world’s
largest medical rehabilitation database, and its instruments provide
the field
with a common language and measurement tools for outcomes and functional
assessment. CMS has adopted UDSMR’s FIM™ instrument
as the basis for the IRF PPS, and UDSMR provides exclusive training
and support to the agency.
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