St. Francis Health Center has achieved HealthGrades’ 2010 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical ExcellenceTM based on its clinical quality performance. Mary Sweet, a HealthGrades representative, will present Grant Wicklund, St. Francis interim president and chief executive officer, with the award at a news conference at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 16, in the St. Francis Auditorium.
According to the HealthGrades study, patients admitted to a hospital receiving this award are, on average, 29 percent less likely to die and 9 percent less likely to suffer from a major complication. This year, only 269 of the nation’s nearly 5,000 nonfederal hospitals will receive this distinction.
“At St. Francis, we have a skillful and dedicated team of physicians, clinicians and employees,” Wicklund said. “It is because of their hard work and commitment that our patients and their families in northeast Kansas receive high-quality health care that is among the best in the nation.”
“The hospitals that have been designated as Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence™ have, across the board, been leaders in their commitment to delivering the highest quality patient care. Consumers can choose where they receive their health care and our study again highlights the tremendous disparity in quality between hospitals,” said Rick May, MD, HealthGrades senior physician consultant.
St. Francis Health Center is one of three hospitals in Kansas to receive the Clinical Excellence designation. The other hospitals are the University of Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, Kan, and Via Christi Regional Medical Center, Wichita.
Additionally, St. Francis is:
• Ranked No. 1 in Kansas for GI services
• Ranked No. 1 in Kansas for GI medical treatment
• Ranked among the top five (No. 3) in Kansas for coronary interventional procedures
• Ranked among the top five (No. 3) for overall orthopedic services
• Ranked among the top five (No. 2) in Kansas for treatment of stroke
• Ranked among the top five (No. 3) in Kansas for overall critical care
• Five-star rated for treatment of heart attack for three consecutive years (2008-10)
• Five-star rated for treatment of pneumonia for four consecutive years (2007-10)
• The recipient the HealthGrades Stroke Care Excellence Award™ two years in a row (2009 and 2010).
This is the eighth year that HealthGrades has independently analyzed the clinical quality performance of all nonfederal hospitals across the country in 26 procedures and diagnoses. In the Distinguished Hospital Study, the company reviewed 40 million hospitalization records from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, during the years 2006, 2007 and 2008. Participation is not voluntary, and no hospital can opt out of being rated. All hospitals that participate in the Medicare program were part of the independent study. Hospitals that receive the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical ExcellenceTM are those hospitals that rank in the top 5 percent when all 26 individual scores are aggregated into an overall score.
A full copy of the study can be found at www.healthgrades.com.
Friday, February 12, 2010
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