Union Hospital – Terre Haute Receives 2024 Vituity Practice of the Year Award

Emeryville, CA – October 30, 2024 – Vituity, a leading multispecialty partnership, has honored Union Hospital – Terre Haute with the prestigious 2024 Vituity Practice of the Year Award. This 380-bed regional hospital, located in Terre Haute, Indiana, serves its community with excellence and has achieved remarkable improvements across multiple areas of care since first partnering with Vituity in 2021.

“Congratulations to the entire Union Hospital – Terre Haute team on this well-deserved recognition, " says Gregg Miller, MD, Vituity’s Chief Medical Officer. “This honor reflects their outstanding dedication and commitment to clinical excellence and patient-centered care, which raise the standard for healthcare delivery in the region.”

Union Hospital is home to four Vituity practice lines: Emergency Medicine (EM), Hospital Medicine (HM), Critical Care (CC), and Tele-Neurology (NRO), and a dedicated team of nearly 70 clinicians and staff. Purposeful integration across these services has fostered exceptional patient care outcomes, led by Vituity Medical Directors Dr. Shashikumar Gowda (CC), Dr. Philip Jackson (EM), Dr. Joseph Scuorzo (HM), and Dr. Arbi Ohanian (tNRO).

In addition, the hospital has set a new standard for stroke care, consistently achieving a door-to-needle time of under 30 minutes for stroke patients. This remarkable performance earned the American Heart Association's Stroke Gold Plus Quality Award and the Target: Stroke SM Honor Roll Elite Plus Award, distinguishing Union Hospital above many major stroke centers nationwide.

Union Hospital’s sepsis care outcomes are another standout example of this team’s dedication to quality improvement. When Vituity took over the contract in 2021, sepsis mortality was 13%. By 2023, this figure had dropped to 6%, with sepsis bundle compliance improving from 40% to over 75%.

The strong collaboration between Vituity and Union Hospital has not gone unnoticed by the hospital’s leadership. In January 2024, the Union Health CEO praised the partnership’s impact, citing the exceptional level of care provided by Vituity and its contributions to the community through Vituity Cares Clinics. The CEO rated Vituity a perfect 10/10 on the annual survey for “likelihood to recommend.”

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