Measures of care

Patients and families have a right to know about the quality of care they receive at Owatonna Hospital. That's why we monitor the quality of our care constantly and use it to guide our quality improvement initiatives. Our standards of care are based on suggestions by non-profit and governmental institutions that base their recommendations on scientific knowledge and research.

We voluntarily participate in several state and national initiatives that allow us to show our performance using information technology for real time viewing and comparisons.

We recently joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvements 5 Million Lives Campaign, which is an initiative to protect patients from five million incidents of medical harm over the next two years.

In 2007 - 2009, Owatonna Hospital received the following awards:

• 2009 MHA Innovation of the Year in Patient Care for its enhanced recovery protocol for patients undergoing colon surgery and hernia repairs
• 2009 MHA Patient Safety Excellence Award SAFE Site Campaign to prevent wrong-site surgeries (the wrong procedure being performed, or a procedure being performed on the wrong body part or patient)
• 2008 VHA Leadership Award for Clinical Excellence in treating hospitalized patients with pneumonia
• 2008 MHA Patient Safety Excellence Award SAFE From FALLS Campaign to reduce patient falls in the hospital
• 2008 MHA Patient Safety Excellence Award SAFE Skin Campaign to prevent pressure ulcers
• 2007 Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA) Innovation of the Year in Patient Care Award for it's Congestive Heart Failure Initiative

Patient Care, Safety & Satisfaction

How are we doing?

As part of our commitment to provide exceptional care, we regularly report on care improvement and safety efforts, and survey our patients about the care they received. See how Owatonna Hospital and other Allina facilities rate...

The Leapfrog Group

Minnesota became the first state in the nation with 100 percent of hospital's agreeing to provide information to The Leapfrog Group, a national patient safety organization that compiles patient safety data for review by the public.

To access data on Owatonna Hospital's progress toward nationally recommended safety practices, take these steps:

1. Visit www.leapfroggroup.org.
2. Select For Consumers, then Click here to find Leapfrog's ratings of hospital quality.
3. Follow the instructions to find Owatonna Hospital either by zip code, city and state, state, or hospital name.

Hospital Compare

Hospital Compare was created through the efforts of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and organizations that represent hospitals, doctors, employers, accrediting organizations, other federal agencies and the public. The Web site allows patients and families to compare the performance of virtually all the nation's acute care hospitals on 18 common quality measures for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia care.

To see how well Owatonna Hospital and other hospitals in your area care for all their adult patients with certain medical conditions, take these steps:

1. Visit www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov.
2. Select Find and Compare Hospitals, then enter your search criteria.