At Winona Health, our quality and safety goal is to create peace of mind by providing compassionate, personalized care to our family, friends and neighbors. Our quality and patient safety standards are:

  • SAFETY: Do no harm.
  • COURTESY: Be kind, caring and selfless.
  • PERFORMANCE: Deliver an excellent care experience.
  • EFFECTIVENESS: Obtain results by design.

Great care is safe care at Winona Health, all employees are required to actively participate in promoting safety. We also believe people can make better decisions about their health care if they have accurate information. That is why Winona Health monitors hundreds of quality indicators and benchmarks ourselves to local, state and national standards.

Quality and Safety Measures

At Winona Health, ensuring the safest possible patient care is our most important goal. That’s why Winona Health is consistently looking at ways to improve health care quality and provide an excellent patient experience.  Working with the Institute for Health Care Improvement (IHI), Minnesota Healthcare Association (MHA) and various regulatory agencies, Winona Health is working to improve quality of care and provide patients with the information they need to make health care decisions.

Independent Quality Reports

There are several agencies that provide patients with independent evaluations of Winona Health as compared to other hospitals in the region or nationwide. Winona Health submits data to a variety of reputable state and national organizations that benchmark Winona Health’s outcome measures against other healthcare providers.

Publicly reported data includes hospital charges and information on quality and safety. This information serves to provide healthcare consumers a foundation for more informed decision-making and provides a framework for hospitals, clinics, and their providers to pursue excellence through continuous improvement.

Check out the following for current data and information:

* Winona Health does not submit quality data to LeapFrog.