Woodland Heights Recognized for High Quality of Care

Woodland Heights Medical Center has received the Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Award of Excellence from TMF® Health Quality Institute, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Texas. TMF established the awards program in partnership with The Texas Hospital Association, Texas Medical Association, Texas Organization of Rural & Community Hospitals and Texas Osteopathic Medical Association.  Click here to read press release.

See How the Hospitals in Your Area Compare!

Through the years, the care at Woodland Heights Medical Center has been winning patients over. But they're not the only ones who are impressed. For a while now, we've been gaining recognition for excellence in the treatment of heart attacks, strokes and pneumonia. Sure, we're proud of our achievements, but we're even prouder of the care we're able to deliver to you.

The information on the link below comes from The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). "Hospital Compare" displays rates for Care Measures that show how often hospitals provide some of the care that is recommended for patients being treated for a heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, or patients having surgery. Woodland Heights Medical Center voluntarily submitted data from medical records about the treatments our adult patients have received for these conditions. The physicians and staff of Woodland Heights are committed to providing the best care possible to our community and being the leader in service excellence and quality.

Click below to see how we compare on PATIENT EXPERIENCE

"Patient Experience"

 

Click below to see how we compare on HEART FAILURE

"Heart Failure"

 

Click below to see how we compare on HEART ATTACK

"Heart Attack"

 

Click below to see how we compare on PNEUMONIA

"Pneumonia"

 

Click below to see how we compare on SURGICAL CARE

"Surgical Care"

Click below to see how we measure up against other area hospitals!
"Hospital Compare"

Awards and Accreditations

• 2009 Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Award of Excellence from TMF Health Quality Institute
• 2009 American Heart Association Get with the Guidelines Bronze Performance Achievement Award
• 2009 Quality and Clinical Excellence designation by Forbes Magazine
• 2005 Best Nursing Team, Advance for Nurses magazine
• 2007 Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Award of Excellence from TMF Health Quality Institute
• 2008 Pathway to Excellence™ designation by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
• 2008 Accreditation in Breast Ultrasound and Ultrasound-Guided Biopsy by the American College of Radiology.
• American Heart Association Bronze Award for Get with the Guidelines for Pneumonia, Heart Attack and Stroke 2008
• Nurse Friendly Designated Hospital
• Quality certification for all ER nurses
• Advanced Association of Women's health OB and Neonatal Nurses
• Fetal monitoring certification for all L&D nurses

First in the Area

• First in Cardiac Catheterization
• First Open Heart Surgery
• First Beating Heart Surgery
• Texas' first GE Innova 2121 All-Digital Biplane Imaging System
• Digitally equipped surgical facilities
• First Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization Surgery
• First Anterior Hip Replacement
• Hitachi Altaire open MRI Accreditation by the American College of Radiology
• Digitally equipped Catheterization lab
• Hana™ Hip and Knee Arthroplasty table