Missouri health care provider SSM Health Care recently received several quality awards. The awards were presented by the Excellence in Missouri Foundation, which administers the Missouri Quality Award and Missouri Team Quality Award programs. SSM St. Joseph Health Center, St. Charles; SSM St. Joseph Hospital West, Lake St. Louis; and St. Joseph Medical Park jointly won a Missouri Quality Award. SSM Health Care-St. Louis won the Missouri Team Quality Award. The foundation also recognized the SSM Information Center for its quality program and team-based structure. The awards were formally presented at a banquet in Osage Beach on Nov. 17.

St. Joseph Health Center, St. Joseph Hospital West and St. Joseph Medical Park received the Missouri Quality Award for the organizationwide alignment of SSM Health Care’s mission (“Through Our Exceptional Health Care Services, We Reveal the Healing Presence of God”), successful continuous-improvement efforts and the implementation of best practices, which pledges that critical patients will be seen within 30 seconds in the emergency room and that all others will be seen within 30 minutes.

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