HealthGrades 2010 Report – America’s 50 Best Hospitals
HealthGrades has released its Fourth Annual America’s 50 Best Hospitals Report.
The report asserts:
From 2006 through 2008, if all hospitals performed at the level of America’s 50 Best Hospitals:
- 164,964 Medicare deaths may have been prevented.
- 18,900 Medicare inhospital complications may have been avoided.
The HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals Award designation recognizes hospitals that demonstrated superior and sustained clinical quality over a ten-year time period, based upon an analysis of more than 130 million Medicare patient records from 1999 through 2008 (the most recent year available.)
HealthGrades America’s 50 Best Hospitals were selected by identifying those hospitals that have received the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence for the most consecutive years. Hospitals that are recognized with a HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence rank among the top 5% nationally for quality. America’s 50 Best Hospitals consistently outperformed all other hospitals across all procedures and diagnoses studied.
Find out whether a hospital in your area is on the list:
http://www.healthgrades.com/media/DMS/pdf/Americas50BestHospitalsReport2010.pdf
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