Tuesday, November 29, 2011
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VCU Health System Awarded Consumer Choice Award for Seventh Time
Eric Peters
VCU Communications and Public Relations
petersem@vcu.edu
11/29/2011
The Virginia Commonwealth University Health System has received a
Consumer Choice Award for providing quality healthcare services based on
an independent survey of central Virginia residents. This is the
seventh time the health system has received the award.
The
National Research Corporation presented the award following a nationwide
survey of hospital consumers’ perceptions of the local healthcare
facilities they use. Participants rated the facilities on a variety of
factors including overall quality of patient care, quality of doctors
and nurses and overall image and reputation.
"We are pleased that
our patients and their families have again recognized our dedication to
the highest quality patient care," said Sheldon Retchin, M.D., VCU
Health System CEO and vice president for VCU Health Sciences. “This
award acknowledges the devoted efforts of our physicians, nurses and
staff to provide extraordinary care.”
The 292 winners from the
top 300 markets across the country were chosen after a survey of more
than 250,000 households representing more than 450,000 consumers in the
contiguous 48 states and the District of Columbia. From the households
surveyed, 3,200 hospitals named by consumers were analyzed and ranked
based on their Core Based Statistical Areas (CBSAs) as defined by the
U.S. Census Bureau, with the winning facilities being ranked the
highest.
The study has a margin of error of plus or minus 0.2 percent at a national level.
The
VCU Health System is included in U.S. News & World Reports’ top
hospital listings and is among an elite group of about 200 healthcare
organizations worldwide that have been awarded Magnet status for nursing
excellence in national and international health care. The VCU Health
System has seven times been named one of the Working Mother 100 Best
Companies and four times a Greater Richmond Employer of Choice. It also
received the national Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in
Workplace Flexibility.
- About VCU and the VCU Medical Center
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- Virginia Commonwealth University is a major, urban public
research university with national and international rankings in
sponsored research. Located on two downtown campuses in Richmond, VCU
enrolls more than 32,000 students in 211 certificate and degree programs
in the arts, sciences and humanities. Sixty-nine of the programs are
unique in Virginia, many of them crossing the disciplines of VCU’s 13
schools and one college. MCV Hospitals and the health sciences schools
of Virginia Commonwealth University compose the VCU Medical Center, one
of the nation’s leading academic medical centers. For more, see www.vcu.edu.
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