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PinnacleHealth does well in Highmark program

By Heather Stauffer
 August 17. 2012 9:00AM - Last modified: August 17. 2012 9:09AM

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Harrisburg-based PinnacleHealth System received the maximum reward possible through Pittsburgh-based insurer Highmark Inc.'s Quality Blue pay-for-performance hospital program this year.


PinnacleHealth has had benchmark results in central line bloodstream infections, no ventilator-associated infections in adult critical care units for two years and a 6 percent decrease in readmissions of patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities.

Highmark's program is a decade old and includes 90 hospitals in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Highmark will hold a best practice forum in Harrisburg on Nov. 8 for the hospitals.


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