CheckPoint and Quality Measures Team

The mission of CheckPoint is to serve as a consumer-focused website that provides reliable, valid measures of health care in Wisconsin hospitals, to facilitate the selection of quality health care and assist quality improvement activities within Wisconsin’s hospital community. To ensure health care measures remain evidence-based, aligned to state and national priorities, and timely and comparable, the CheckPoint tool is led by a Quality Measures Team. The team represents more than 94 hospitals and eight health systems in Wisconsin with the goal to bring forward a broad perspective for tracking measures that are suitable for all hospital sizes, applicable to the geography and representative of the populations they serve.

*Annual improvements represent the latest available data as of May 2025 and include multiple different time ranges

Message from the Chair of the Quality Measures Team, Kris Melaas Merkel, Director, Quality and Patient Safety, Central Region, Aspirus Health:

There are many ways to measure hospital quality and safety from claims measures to manually abstracted measures to patient experience data. The fact of the matter is that understanding hospital quality and safety measures and data is complex. Wisconsinites are fortunate to benefit from WHA’s progressive approach to publicly reporting quality and safety data via CheckPoint. WHA continues to lead the way in quality data transparency and strives to enhance consumer accessibility and understanding of the information.  I am grateful for the WHA team and their collaboration with the Quality Measures team to support CheckPoint in being a valuable resource to patients and health care professionals.