Central DuPage, Good Samaritan, Provena St. Joseph Medical Center recognized
As seen in the Naperville Sun
Published January 28, 2009
Sun staff
A leading health care ratings company ranked Central DuPage Hospital, Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital and Provena St. Joseph Medical Center among the top 5 percent nationally, according to rankings released Monday.
Only 270 hospitals received HealthGrades' Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence. This distinction is based on an independent study released Monday by HealthGrades, the leading health care ratings company.
The study of quality at the nation's nearly 5,000 nonfederal hospitals places Winfield-based Central DuPage, Downers Grove-based Good Samaritan, and Joliet-based Saint Joseph in the top 5 percent for overall clinical quality. According to the HealthGrades study, Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence had mortality rates that were, on average, 27 percent lower than other hospitals, and major complication rates that were 8 percent lower.
The study also shows that Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence are improving at a greater rate in more procedures and diagnoses than all other hospitals, lowering risk-adjusted mortality rates over the years 2005, 2006, 2007 by an average of 18 percent.
For its study, HealthGrades analyzed almost 41 million Medicare hospitalization records that cover the latest three-year period, from 2005 to 2007. Because the hospitalization records come from the federal government, no hospital can opt in or out of HealthGrades' rating process. The analysis is risk-adjusted to account for differences in patient populations between hospitals.
HealthGrades found that Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence outperformed all other hospitals across the procedures and diagnoses studied. HealthGrades estimates 152,666 lives could have been saved and 11,772 complications avoided over the three years studied if all Medicare patients were treated at Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence.
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For the full list of hospitals receiving the 2009 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence, visit www.healthgrades.com.