SC Wisconsin News

Aspirus Stevens Point Hospital has been honored by the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) with an award for Excellence in Health Care Quality and Patient Safety. This recognition is part of WHA's 2025 Quality and Patient Safety Awards.

The award acknowledges hospitals that implement innovative measures to enhance quality, patient safety, and outcomes within Wisconsin. Aspirus Stevens Point Hospital received this accolade for its "Improving Mortality Index" project, which evaluates death rates within a population. The initiative aims to bolster health care infrastructure, emergency response systems, and disease control measures. It was recognized in the General Medical Surgical Hospital category for facilities with 26-99 beds and was one of four hospitals awarded WHA Patient Safety and Quality Awards this year.

"This project was identified to help us meet one of our strategic system performance pillars," said Amanda Walloch, Director of Quality and Patient Safety at Aspirus Stevens Point Hospital. "As an added bonus it also helped us improve our system-wide hospice referral process."

Award recipients were chosen by a council of health care quality experts who assessed their innovative stories and top performance scores in respective categories.

"We are grateful to be recognized with this honor," said Beth Sekerka, Vice President of Patient Care and Chief Nursing Officer at Aspirus Stevens Point Hospital. "We learned that improving our mortality index requires a multi-faceted team that achieved success by setting goals and having clear guiding principles that were frequently reviewed and supported by the clinical and leadership teams on many levels."