Texas Hospital and Physician Practice Quality Improvement Award Programs

Since 2004, TMF Health Quality Institute, in partnership with Texas Hospital Association, Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals, Texas Medical Association and Texas Osteopathic Medical Association, has sponsored the Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Award program for hospitals. In 2012, 167 out of 214 participating hospitals were awarded Gold, Silver or Bronze awards.

The 2012-2013 hospital award program will kick off in May 2012 and will automatically include all Prospective Payment Systems (PPS) hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) statewide.

New This Year

Beginning in 2012, TMF, in partnership with Texas Medical Association and Texas Osteopathic Medical Association, will sponsor the Texas Physician Practice Quality Improvement Award. Any practice in the state of Texas with one or more Texas-licensed physicians providing care for Medicare fee-for-service patients is eligible to participate.

Both of these non-competitive award programs are designed to recognize high performers in quality improvement statewide.