PA PQC Awards 42 Hospitals Maternal Health Recognitions at First Annual Designation Ceremony

The Pennsylvania Perinatal Quality Collaborative (PA PQC) is pleased to announce the recipients of its inaugural Designations Awards which were presented at its annual conference in Harrisburg on May 22, 2024.

Designation awards and levels are based on meeting quality improvement milestone criteria over a 12-month period, starting from April 2023 through March 2024. The awards were announced and presented to staff from each hospital during a ceremony at the Best Western Central Hotel and Conference Center. Those earning the silver or gold designation level have undertaken additional projects focused on health equity and/or patient voice within maternal health care.

Designation signifies the hospital has established multidisciplinary teams that have demonstrated improvements in maternal and newborn care by sharing best practices and data in their hospital and community. A gold designation signifies a hospital's proven commitment to health equity (HE) and patient voice (PV) in their quality improvement work. A silver signifies the hospital's dedicated commitment to incorporating HE or PV into their quality improvement work. A bronze designation signifies the hospital met the required quality improvement submission criteria for at least 2 of the 4 quarters.

Hospitals had the opportunity to earn a Designation for each 2023-24 PA PQC initiative that they actively participated in, including:

Immediate Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (IPLARC), substance use disorders (SUD), and substance exposed newborn (SEN).

Hospitals recognized at the ceremony include:

Allegheny Health Network Forbes Hospital (SUD – Bronze)

Allegheny Health Network Jefferson Hospital (SUD – Bronze)

Allegheny Health Network Saint Vincent Hospital (SUD – Gold, SEN – Gold)

Allegheny Health Network West Penn Hospital (SUD/PV – Silver, SUD/HE – Silver)

Allegheny Health Network Wexford Hospital (SUD – Bronze)

Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center (SEN – Bronze)

Doylestown Hospital (SUD – Bronze, SEN – Bronze)

Einstein Medical Center Montgomery (SEN/PV – Silver)

Evangelical Community Hospital (SUD/HE – Silver, SEN – Bronze)

Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital (SEN – Gold, SUD/HE – Silver, SUD – Bronze)

Geisinger Community Medical Center (SUD/HE – Silver, IPLARC – Bronze)

Geisinger Lewistown Hospital (SEN/PV – Silver, SUD/HE – Silver, IPLARC – Bronze)

Geisinger Medical Center (SUD/HE – Silver, IPLARC – Bronze)

Geisinger Wyoming Valley Medical Center (SUD – Gold, IPLARC – Bronze)

Guthrie-Robert Packer Hospital (SUD – Gold, SEN – Gold)

Holy Redeemer Hospital (SUD – Bronze, SEN – Bronze)

Jefferson Health Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (SEN – Bronze)

Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest (SEN – Bronze, SUD – Bronze, IPLARC – Bronze)

Lehigh Valley Hospital – Hazleton (SEN – Bronze, SUD – Bronze, IPLARC – Bronze)

Lehigh Valley Hospital – Muhlenberg (SEN – Bronze, SUD – Bronze)

Lehigh Valley Hospital – Pocono (SEN – Bronze, SUD – Bronze, IPLARC – Bronze)

Lehigh Valley Hospital – Schuylkill (SEN – Bronze, SUD – Bronze)

Penn Highlands DuBois (SEN/PV – Silver)

Penn Medicine Chester County Hospital (SEN – Bronze, SUD – Bronze)

Penn Medicine Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (SUD – Gold, SEN – Gold)

Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health Women and Babies Hospital (SUD – Gold, SEN – Bronze)

Penn Medicine Pennsylvania Hospital (SUD – Gold, SEN/HE – Silver)

Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center (SUD – Gold, SEN – Gold)

Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center (SEN – Bronze)

Tower Health Reading Hospital Center (SUD/PV – Silver, SEN – Bronze)

UPMC Altoona (SEN – Bronze, SUD – Bronze)

UPMC Hamot (SUD/HE – Silver, SEN – Bronze)

UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital (SUD – Gold, SEN – Bronze)

UPMC Northwest (SUD – Bronze)

UPMC Harrisburg (SEN – Gold)

UPMC Williamsport (IPLARC/PV – Silver)

Wayne Memorial Hospital (SUD/HE – Silver, IPLARC – Bronze, SEN – Bronze)

WellSpan Ephrata Community Hospital (SUD – Gold, SEN – Bronze)

WellSpan Gettysburg Hospital (SUD – Gold, SEN – Bronze)

WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital (SUD – Gold, SEN – Bronze)

WellSpan Chambersburg Hospital (SUD – Gold, SEN – Bronze)

WellSpan York Hospital (SUD – Gold, SEN – Bronze