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Rehabilitation
Hospital of Southern New Mexico Recognized Among Top
10% of U.S. Inpatient Rehabilitations Facilities
Cited for care that is effective, efficient, timely and patient-centered
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(Las Cruces, NM, December 10, 2007) --
The Rehabilitation Hospital of Southern New Mexico is pleased to
announce that it ranked in the top 10 percent of 827 inpatient
rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) that were ranked in the IRF database
of Uniform Data System for Medical Rehabilitation (UDSMR).
"We are very proud to be recognized for the quality of
our patient care,” said Tony Hernandez, CEO of the Rehabilitation Hospital
of Southern New Mexico. “Our focus on maximizing our patient
outcomes is all about keeping it simple, while we continue to meet
the needs of the community.”
"The staff at the Rehabilitation Hospital of Southern New
Mexico is dedicated to quality patient care and this is a great
reflection
of that dedication,” said Dr. Brown, Medical Director.
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 the Rehabilitation
Hospital of Southern New Mexico 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 the Rehabilitation Hospital
of Southern New Mexico and the 82 other facilities across the country
that rank in the top 10 percent to improve care in all inpatient
rehabilitation facilities.”
This is the first 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
2006 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.
At our state-of-the art 40 bed acute rehabilitation hospital we
specialize in the care of patients with stroke, trauma, spinal
cord injury, head injury and other disabling impairments. For more
information about Rehabilitation Hospital of Southern New Mexico
or to schedule a tour, please call us at 575.521.6400
or visit us online at RHSNM.ernesthealth.com.
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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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