Susanville’s Banner Lassen Medical Center has been recognized by the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative with a 2024 Quality and Sustainability Award in recognition of the healthcare team’s outstanding commitment to quality improvement in maternity care.
This award is given to hospitals that achieved a target Cesarean Birth rate of ≤23.6% among their Nulliparous, Term, Singleton, Vertex (NTSV) birthing population consecutively from CY 2021 – CY 2024.
According to the hospital the target rate for this Joint Commission-stewarded measure, also referred to as PC-02, is set by the World Health Organization’s Healthy People 2030 objectives.
CMQCC is a nationally recognized maternal quality improvement group that focuses on improving hospital based maternity care in California.
Banner Lassen Medical Center is one of 116 hospitals being recognized for their accomplishments in 2023, distributing seven awards across three main award categories:
- The Early Implementers Awards, which recognizes hospitals that implemented a new Maternal Data Center measure or feature
- The Quality and Sustainability Awards, which recognizes hospitals’ quality and sustainability efforts in three different areas
- The Superstar Awards, which recognize hospitals that exhibited high levels of engagement in the MDC.
