Top 5% In the Nation!
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On Monday, January 29, Alta Bates Summit Medical Center announced that it has been recognized as among the Top Five Percent of hospitals in the nation by HealthGrades®, the nation’s leading independent healthcare ratings company.
We are extremely proud that Alta Bates Summit physicians, nurses and other staff have worked so hard to receive HealthGrades’ recognition as a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence. HealthGrades study on Hospital Quality and Clinical ExcellenceTM has ranked Alta Bates Summit in the top 5% of hospitals in the country according to their study of mortality and complications.
Alta Bates Summit’s continuing focus is to provide the region with the best quality care possible. To have an independent study validate our efforts is especially gratifying. This credit goes to the skilled team of physicians, nurses and staff who give their best every day to our patients and their families. It is because of this dedicated staff that our community is assured the care they receive is among the best in the nation.
According to the HealthGrades study, patients admitted to a hospital receiving this award are, on average, 28 percent less likely to face mortality and 5 percent less likely to suffer from a major complication. This year, only 266 of the nation’s 4,971 non-federal hospitals will receive this distinction.
HealthGrades estimates that if all patients were treated at Distinguished Hospitals, 158,264 lives could have been saved and 12,410 post-operative complications could have been avoided during the years studied.
Each year, HealthGrades independently analyzes the clinical quality performance of all non-federal hospitals across the country in 28 procedures and diagnoses. In the Distinguished Hospital Study, the company reviewed tens of millions of hospitalization records over the years 2003, 2004 and 2005. Hospitals that receive the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence are those hospitals that rank in the top five percent when all 28 individual scores are aggregated into an overall score.
Congratulations to each of you for jobs well done!
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