The trustees of the University of Pennsylvania Health System are pleased to announce that Penn has received its second and third national quality awards for 1998. Penn also has been awarded the 1998 Excellence in Healthcare Award , sponsored by the magazine Modern Healthcare and MMI Companies, Inc., for extraordinary innovations in improving the health of its patients. Earlier this year, Penn received the 1998 National Quality Health Care Award from the National Committee for Quality Health Care.
Quality requires planning, monitoring and continuously finding new ways to improve.