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Olympic Medical Center is the area hospital serving Port Angeles and Sequim. One of the questions people often ask before they decide to make this their retirement home for life is, “How are the medical facilities?” The answer is, “Outstanding.” Here are some of the examples of quality health care at OMC.

CareScience 2006 Select

Practice Quality Leader Award

Olympic Memorial Hospital was named as a 2006 CareScience Select Practice National Quality Leader in the category of medically managed myocardial infarction. As a recipient of the award, Olympic Memorial Hospital is a part of an elite group of the top 1 percent performers across the 4,500 acute-care hospitals in the United States as identified by the CareScience Select Practice methodology, which utilizes both quality and efficiency indicators to track a hospital’s overall performance.

2006 HomeCare Elite

Olympic Medical Home Health was named to the 2006 HomeCare Elite,

the inaugural compilation of the most successful home care providers in the country. Additionally, Olympic Medical Home Health ranked in the top 100 of providers nationwide. This ground-breaking review names the Medicare-certified agencies that perform among the top 25 percent of providers nationwide in quality, improvement and financial performance.

(CVI) Top 100 U.S. Hospitals out of 3400 hospitals evaluated nationwide

The Community Value Index (CVI) was created by Cleverley & Associates of Worthington, Ohio, to provide a measure of the value that a hospital provides to its community. Cleverley & Associates is recognized nationally for their work in evaluating hospital finances and community investment

JCAHO Accredited

Olympic Memorial Hospital, the flagship of Olympic Medical Center’s facilities in Sequim and Port Angeles, is certified by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO).

Perfect Survey from Washington State Department of Health

Olympic Medical Center’s hospital as well as imaging and physical therapy centers receives a perfect survey by auditors from the State of Washington Department of Health in their 2001 annual review.