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For
the 2nd consecutive year, Elkhorn
Valley Regional Rehabilitation Hospital Recognized
as One of the Top 10% of Inpatient Rehabilitations
Facilities in the United States
Cited for care that is effective,
efficient, timely and patient-centered
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(Casper, WY, March 2010
) -- Elkhorn Valley Rehabilitation
Hospital is
pleased to announce it ranked in the top 10 percent of 805
inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) qualified to be
ranked in the IRF database of Uniform Data System for Medical
Rehabilitation (UDSMR) in 2009.
“Receiving this recognition for the 2nd year straight
truly demonstrates the commitment and dedication our incredible
team gives to each patient everyday here at Elkhorn Valley
Rehabilitation Hospital,” stated Todd Sandberg, CEO EVRH. “In
addition, I think it is important for the residents of Casper,
the State of Wyoming and the region to know that they need
not travel far to receive exceptional inpatient rehabilitation
care because it’s right here in their backyard.”
The rankings were determined by using UDSMR’s 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.
“This recognition for excellence two years in a row is
a testament to our staff’s continued commitment in providing
the best possible rehabilitation care to the people of Wyoming,” stated
Ryan T. Swan, MD, Medical Director EVRH.
“We are pleased to present this award to Elkhorn
Valley 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 Elkhorn Valley Rehabilitation Hospital and the
other top performing facilities across the country that rank
in the top 10 percent to improve care in all inpatient rehabilitation
facilities.”
This is the fourth year that UDSMR has issued these awards,
and it is the second year Elkhorn Valley has been eligible.
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 2009 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 qualifying IRF subscribers in
UDSMR’s database. The resultant distribution of the facility
PEM scores for UDSMR’s IRF subscribers exhibited a normal
distribution.
Elkhorn Valley Rehabilitation Hospital
5715 East 2nd Street
Casper, Wyoming 82609
Phone (307) 265-0005
Fax (307) 268-7770
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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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