Thibodaux Regional Receives Summit Award
for Highest Level of Patient Satisfaction

Thibodaux, LA, January 23, 2007 - Thibodaux Regional Medical Center is proud to announce that Press Ganey Associates has named it a 2006 Summit Award Winner.
The Summit Award recognizes top performing hospitals that sustain the highest level of patient satisfaction for three or more consecutive years. The Press Ganey Summit Award is the health care satisfaction industry’s most coveted symbol of achievement. Thibodaux Regional is just one of only 14 hospitals in the nation and the only hospital in Louisiana to receive this prestigious honor.

“Receiving this national award is a special honor to the employees and doctors of Thibodaux Regional, who each day, dedicate themselves to providing the best in care for our patients,” said Greg Stock, CEO of Thibodaux Regional Medical Center. “As a hospital that is continuously improving, this award exemplifies our commitment to excellence; yet, it compels us to work harder, and to seek opportunities that would allow us even higher standards of excellence for our staff and our patients.”

"We are proud partners of Thibodaux Regional Medical Center,” said Dr. Hall. “This is an outstanding accomplishment for the hospital and for Louisiana. The residents of this region should be proud and reassured to know that they have one of the best hospitals in patient satisfaction in the country.”

Over the last five years, Thibodaux Regional has been presented numerous awards including the Press Ganey Associates Award for Patient Satisfaction, Outstanding Service Performance and Best Quality of Care; the Quint Studer Firestarter Award for Culture of Excellence; the U.S. Senate Productivity Award; QHR’s Best Overall Hospital Performance in Region 4 and in the United States; and the Louisiana Performance Excellence Award (Malcolm Baldrige).

Press Ganey is a nationally recognized company that partners with health care facilities to measure the level of customer satisfaction and improve their quality of health care delivery. More than one-third of U.S. inpatient hospitals currently partner with Press Ganey. The company’s databases are the largest in the industry, and allow facilities nationwide to benchmark their results against peer organizations.

Thibodaux Regional is a modern, 185-bed acute care facility.  As a regional referral center, the hospital offers a broad array of inpatient and outpatient care for the people of Lafourche and seven surrounding parishes.  Highly specialized services offered include Cardiology, Heart and Vascular Surgery, Oncology, Neurology, Neurosurgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Orthopedics, Pulmonology, Behavioral Health, and Inpatient and Outpatient Physical Rehabilitation Services.

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