SPH Analytics Announces its National APEX Quality Award Winners for Healthcare Excellence

Healthcare organizations recognized for excellence in patient satisfaction and overall care

SPH Analytics (@SPHAnalytics) announced today that 119 healthcare provider organizations have earned its annual National APEX Quality Award. For the past ten years, SPH Analytics has awarded the National APEX Quality Award to recognize healthcare providers who demonstrate the highest level of excellence in patient satisfaction.

This national distinction recognizes outstanding healthcare providers who have demonstrated excellence in patient satisfaction and overall care during the previous calendar year. The latest winners include ambulatory surgery centers, catheterization laboratories, diagnostic imaging centers, endoscopy centers, and physician practices.

APEX Quality Award recipients use SPH Analytics’ insightful patient experience surveying and perception management solution. Winners represent the top 10% of SPH clients with the highest satisfaction scores for measures tied directly to care and are determined based solely on patient feedback and evidence-based success.

The APEX Quality Award recognized 119 healthcare organizations in the U.S. Eighty-eight of the winners are ambulatory surgery centers, 12 of the winners are physician practices and clinics, 14 are endoscopy centers, 2 are catheterization laboratories, and 3 are diagnostic imaging centers. SPH Analytics notes that four facilities have the distinction of being recognized for the tenth consecutive year since the program’s inception:

Community Surgery Center Hamilton (Noblesville, IN)
Lakeland Surgical & Diagnostic Center (Lakeland, FL)
Surgery Center at Hamilton (Hamilton, NJ)
UnaSource Surgery Center (Troy, MI)

“We applaud all recipients of this year’s award for their exceptional impact in driving satisfaction for their patients. And in particular, SPH is delighted to recognize that four of these organizations have earned this APEX Quality Award for 10 years in a row,” said Amy Amick, President and CEO of SPH Analytics. “We’re honored partner with each of these healthcare leaders as they maintain and even surpass the levels of exemplary patient experience they cultivate year after year.”

See a complete list of this year’s 119 APEX Quality Award winners.

About SPH Analytics
SPH Analytics (SPH), a leader in healthcare analytics and population health management, empowers clients to analyze and interpret their clinical, financial, and consumer experience data to maximize their performance. SPH’s Population Care™, Population Value™, and Population Engage™ solutions are built on the innovative Nexus™ Platform, providing insights and impact to integrated health networks, ACOs, hospitals, ambulatory care providers, physician groups, and health plans. SPH’s quality measure dashboards, financial risk measurement, healthcare survey and patient outreach solutions, and consulting services empower clients to meet the Triple Aim by improving population health, reducing overall cost of care, and improving the patient experience.

SPH Analytics is a recognized leader in the industry, earning accolades as a top-ranked population health vendor by KLAS, top-ranked satisfaction measurement firm in the health plan market by Modern Healthcare, and ranked number one in MACRA and MIPS Support Technology for Value-Based Care by Black Book Research. SPH Analytics has been providing insights to clients for more than 35 years and serves clients in all 50 states, including 100% of the top 25 largest health plans. Corporate headquarters are in metro Atlanta. SPH Analytics is a portfolio company of the $3 billion STG Partners.

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