Improving Quality

High quality health care meets national standards, keeps your employees healthy and saves your company money.
Physicians
Bridges to Excellence
Bridges to Excellence is a nationally recognized badge of quality medicine. Physicians who win BTE approval have demonstrated they provide exceptional, evidence-based care for patients with diabetes and heart disease.
Patient Centered Medical Home
NCQA-recognized Patient Centered Medical Homes put patients in the center of care delivery. This award means a medical practice has met requirements for using health information technology, making same day appointments available and tracking health indicators.
Consumers’ CHECKBOOK
Consumers’ CHECKBOOK looks at physicians from the patients’ point of view. Patients rate 475 Denver/Boulder primary care physicians on how well they listen and explain things, make themselves available for care when needed and have courteous staff.
Free reports at: www.checkbook.org/patientcentral.
Hospitals
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Score
Leapfrog’s Hospital Survey compares hospitals’ performance on national standards for safety, quality, and efficiency. The Hospital Safety Score uses 26 measures of publicly available safety data to produce a single score. If you are considering surgery, use the score to find a hospital with the best safety record.
Health Plans
eValue8
eValue8 is an annual health care accountability and quality improvement survey that measures the quality and efficiency of America’s health plans. eValue8 asks health plans questions about how they manage critical processes that control costs, reduce and eliminate waste, ensure patient safety, close gaps in care and improve health care.
