St. Luke’s Health—The Woodlands Hospital Receives 2020 QUEST® Award for High-Value Healthcare from Premier Inc.

(THE WOODLANDS, TX) September 15, 2020- St. Luke’s Health—The Woodlands Hospital (The Woodlands Hospital) has been recognized with the QUEST® Award for High-Value Healthcare from Premier Inc., a leading healthcare improvement company, for providing outstanding patient care as a top performing hospital.

The Woodlands Hospital received the award for achieving top performance among its non-teaching hospitals with greater than or equal to 175 beds peer group in Premier’s QUEST 2020 collaborative for mortality, readmissions, affordability and safety.

“This recognition reinforces our commitment to reliably deliver the best care experience to the patients we serve,” said Jim Parisi, North Houston Market President of St. Luke’s Health. “The Woodlands Hospital is proud to win the QUEST Award as we continue down our path of improving patient outcomes and community health overall.”

“QUEST facilities are setting new standards of clinical excellence nationwide,” said Seth Edwards, Vice President of Strategy, Innovation and Population Health for Premier. “Together, they have worked to outperform in healthcare. Premier congratulates St. Luke’s Health—The Woodlands Hospital for its fantastic achievements.”

Premier brings together 1,500 hospitals and health systems in multiple collaboratives, including QUEST, to leverage the power of collaboration on a national scale. Within these collaboratives, healthcare providers work with each other to develop, share and scale best practices that improve quality and safety, reduce costs and share risk. A recipient of The Joint Commission and National Quality Forum’s 2015 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Award, QUEST was launched in 2008 to help health systems reliably deliver the most efficient, effective and caring experience for every patient, every time. Hospitals in Premier’s QUEST collaborative perform 29% better than non-Premier hospitals in achieving value-based purchasing payments.

The peer group improvement category is designed to recognize QUEST 2020 top performing hospitals based on size, patient mix and academic status. Each QUEST 2020 member was grouped into one of six categories: critical access hospitals, academics, teaching hospitals with more than 375 beds, teaching hospitals with fewer than 375 beds, non-teaching hospitals with more than 175 beds and non-teaching hospitals fewer than 175 beds. A top performer in each of the six peer groups was named a winner of the QUEST Award.

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About Premier Inc.
Premier Inc. (NASDAQ: PINC) is a leading healthcare improvement company, uniting an alliance of more than 4,000 U.S. hospitals and health systems and approximately 175,000 other providers and organizations to transform healthcare. With integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, and consulting and other services, Premier enables better care and outcomes at a lower cost. Premier plays a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, collaborating with members to co-develop long-term innovations that reinvent and improve the way care is delivered to patients nationwide. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier is passionate about transforming American healthcare. Please visit Premier’s news and investor sites on www.premierinc.com; as well as Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and Premier’s blog for more information about the company.

About St. Luke’s Health
St. Luke’s Health is dedicated to a mission of enhancing community health through high-quality, cost-effective care. In partnership with our physicians and community partners, we are committed to excellence and compassion in caring for the whole person while creating healthier communities. A part of CommonSpirit Health, one of the nation’s largest health systems, St. Luke’s Health is home of the Texas Heart ®Institute (THI), eight hospitals, eight emergency centers, Diagnostic & Treatment Center, Radiation & CyberKnife® Center, and several St. Luke’s Medical Group locations throughout Greater Houston. Learn more at StLukesHealth.org.