Sherman Hospital named Practice of the Year by CEP America
Elgin, Ill. - Advocate Sherman Hospital has been named Practice of the Year by CEP America.
The award comes as the hospital's annual emergency department volume has grown by 20 percent in the past three years to over 53,000 patient visits a year. Staff has continued to make sustained operational improvements during this growth period.
"We are thrilled to be recognized with such a distinguished honor," said Dr. Matthew Stilson, CEP America Regional Director - Illinois and emergency medicine specialist at Sherman Hospital. "Our emergency department team focuses on process improvements so that Sherman Hospital can provide excellent quality care for our patients."
Those improvements include decreasing Sherman Hospital's median time to provider to 20 minutes, while turnaround time to discharge from the emergency department has dropped to 123 minutes. These operational improvements have also impacted patient satisfaction scores at the hospital, which jumped from the 17th to 82nd percentile.
In addition to managing Sherman Hospital's emergency department, CEP America providers also staff its immediate care centers in Algonquin, Elgin and South Elgin.
The award was announced during a recent Partnership Meeting in San Diego, Calif. Four other California-based hospitals were recognized as Distinguished Practices during the annual meeting.
About Advocate Sherman Hospital
Named the fifth most beautiful hospital in the U.S. by Soliant Health and built in 2009, the 255-bed Advocate Sherman Hospital features all private patient rooms, a 15-acre geothermal lake to heat and cool the facility, an advanced Emergency Department with a level II trauma center, a spacious Family Birthing Center and Special Care Nursery, a Heart & Vascular Center, a Cancer Care Center and a bright, open design to contribute to the healing process. Advocate Sherman is a certified Primary Stroke Center, Breast Center and Chest Pain Center, and also received a 2011 Silver Award from Illinois Performance Excellence (ILPEX). In 2012, it achieved Magnet® nursing status - the highest national standard for nursing excellence. Advocate Sherman provides services across the whole continuum of care, including three immediate care/outpatient centers, an imaging center and a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility. Advocate Sherman employs more than 2,200 individuals, has more than 600 dedicated physicians on its medical staff and is part of the Advocate Health Care network. For more information, visit AdvocateHealth.com/Sherman or call 1-800-3-Advocate.
About Advocate Health Care
Advocate Health Care, named among the nation's Top 5 largest health systems by Truven Analytics in 2013, is the largest health system in Illinois and one of the largest health care providers in the Midwest. Advocate operates more than 250 sites of care, including 10 acute care hospitals and the state's largest integrated children's network. As a nonprofit, mission-based health system affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the United Church of Christ, Advocate contributed $571 million in charitable care and services to communities across the Chicago area and Central Illinois in 2011.
About CEP America
Since its founding in 1975, CEP America has expanded to offer a wide range of clinical, staffing and administrative expertise designed to increase clinical quality and service excellence across the Acute Care Continuum. For nearly 40 years, CEP America has grown to include over 2,500 providers treating 5 million patients a year at over 100 facilities specializing in urgent, emergency, inpatient, and post-acute care across the country.