The Louisiana Quality Foundation announced last week that St. Elizabeth Hospital won the Louisiana Performance Excellence Award at Level III – the highest level – for 2010. The hospital will receive the award during a special ceremony to be held at the Governor’s Mansion on June 14, 2011. St. Elizabeth Hospital also received the Level III recognition in 2007.
With this award, St. Elizabeth Hospital has been recognized as a leader in promoting performance excellence and in the learning and sharing of successful performance practices, principles, and strategies.
“This award verifies that the work that we are doing is on the right track,” said St. Elizabeth Hospital President and CEO, Dee LeJeune. “It is truly an honor to be the recipient of an award which recognizes the organization for the good work that it does, and it is my privilege to work with the men and women of St. Elizabeth Hospital who earned this award.”
The Louisiana Performance Excellence Award honors Louisiana businesses in three categories – business, health care, and education – for innovation and excellence in quality. It is a statewide award recognizing quality leadership in education, government, manufacturing, service industries and non-profit organizations and is based on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. It is organized and administered by the Louisiana Quality Foundation. The award is presented to the organizations meeting the award criteria benchmarks. Organizations that apply are judged in seven areas: leadership; strategic planning; customer and market focus; measurement, analysis, and knowledge management; human resource focus; process management; and results.
“The fact that four of our hospitals are recognized as leaders in quality in Louisiana is confirmation of the commitment of the more than 10,000 team members to meeting the health care needs of the people of Louisiana and living our mission of service, especially to those most in need,” said John J. Finan, President and CEO of the FMOLHS.
Mission
Inspired by the vision of St. Francis of Assisi and the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church, we extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ to God’s people, especially those most in need.
We call forth all who serve in this healthcare ministry to share their gifts and talents to create a Spirit of Healing — with reverence and love for all of life, with joyfulness of spirit, and with humility and justice for all those entrusted to our care.
We are, with God’s help, a healing and spiritual presence for each other and for the communities we are privileged to serve.
Our Lady of the Lake Ascension has proudly served the people of Ascension Parish for nearly four decades. Our commitment to the people of Ascension extends beyond our full-service hospital and our 11 affiliated clinics throughout the parish. We work in Ascension. We live in Ascension. We participate in and support numerous community and civic organizations including the Ascension Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, Volunteer Ascension, Ascension Parish Office of Homeland Security, Leadership Ascension, Ascension schools and athletics. Our doctors and staff are your neighbors, your kids’ soccer coaches, and fellow churchgoers.
No matter where you receive care from us, you have seamless access from providers you know and trust, each connected by your up-to-date medical information through our single health record. This ensures each provider you see is aware of your health history.
Your medical record is also instantly accessible should you need care at Our Lady of the Lake Ascension, formerly St. Elizabeth Hospital, or even advanced trauma care at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center just up I-10.
Our mission leads us to help Ascension lead happy, healthy lives. Just as Ascension has continued to grow and become a destination to live, work and play, we continue to grow with it just as we always have.
Highly Rated Patient Satisfaction
Our Lady of the Lake Ascension has received straight “A’s” for the Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade from 2016 – 2021. The Leapfrog Safety Grade is a national distinction recognizing achievements protecting patients from errors, injuries, accidents, and infections. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D,” or “F” grade to all general hospitals across the country and is updated every six months. It is the only hospital ratings program based exclusively on hospitals’ prevention of medical errors and other harms to patients in their care.
