St. Mary’s Health Center’s national ranking in clinical quality is the focus of a national health care innovation report.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality profiled St. Mary’s in a report titled “Concurrent and Retrospective Chart Review, Performance Reporting and Other Support Significantly Improve Adherence to Core Measures in Four Clinical Areas.” The profile outlines St. Mary’s quality journey, beginning in 2006, to become one of the highest-performing health care organizations in the country.

St. Mary’s is currently ranked in the top one percent of hospitals in the nation for quality, based on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services data, as well as the number one hospital in Missouri for quality measures as reported by HealthInsight. St. Mary’s was also the recipient of the 2009 Missouri Quality Award.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its Health Care Innovations Exchange is designed to accelerate innovations in health care delivery. The St. Mary’s report is available on the AHRQ website at www.innovations.ahrq.gov.