Case Study: Rutland Regional Medical Center achieves higher core measure compliance and 33% reduction in abstraction FTEs with Cerner’s eQualityCheck

Rutland Regional Medical Center increases regulatory compliance with Cerner’s real-time quality reporting solution

Rutland Regional Medical Center, a 123‑bed hospital in Vermont, faced the challenge of keeping up with constantly changing clinical evidence and quality reporting while relying on manual, paper‑based abstraction that required pulling data from the EHR and re‑entering it into another system. The hospital sought a way to streamline workflows, improve documentation at the point of care, and increase compliance with core quality measures.

In 2014 Rutland implemented Cerner’s eQualityCheck real‑time quality reporting and the Quality Summary Dashboard to enable electronic abstraction and proactive, bedside gap‑closure. Post‑implementation results (vs. 2012) included Core Heart Failure compliance rising to 100 (up 13.8%), Pneumonia to 97.4 (+8.7%), AMI to 97.1 (+5.6%), SCIP to 97.8 (+7.6%), and a 33% reduction in FTEs for quality measure abstraction; the hospital now plans to adopt Cerner’s Quality Clearinghouse for streamlined analysis and submission.

Rutland Regional Medical Center

Denise Simpson

Performance improvement manager