Saint Francis receives award
Published: Monday, October 19, 2009
Updated: Monday, October 19, 2009 11:32 AM CDT
Updated: Monday, October 19, 2009 11:32 AM CDT
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — Orthopaedic surgery at Saint Francis Medical Center has been ranked among the top 10 percent in the nation by a new study released by HealthGrades“, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization. The HealthGrades study evaluates objective patient outcomes in the nation’s 5,000 hospitals.
As a result, Saint Francis received the 2010 Orthopedic Surgery Excellence Award™ and is ranked among the top three hospitals in Missouri for overall orthopedics. These exceptional rankings are the result of five-star ratings for overall orthopaedics, total knee replacement, total hip replacement and hip fracture repair.
“Providing quality care is our number one goal,” says Saint Francis President and Chief Executive Officer Steven C. Bjelich, FACHE-D. “To have an organization like HealthGrades validate our outcomes, only proves that Saint Francis Medical Center’s orthopaedics program is one of the best. I am very proud of the physicians and staff that provide outstanding orthopaedic care.”
The HealthGrades study, the largest annual report of its kind, analyzed patient outcomes in nearly 40 million Medicare hospitalization records from 5,000 hospitals over the years 2006, 2007 and 2008. Among the findings related to in-hospital complications in this year’s study are:
Across all procedures in which complications were studied, there was a 79.69 percent lower chance of experiencing one or more in-hospital complications in a 5-star rated hospital compared to a 1-star rated hospital.
Across all procedures studied, there was a 61.22 percent lower chance of experiencing one or more in-hospital complications in a 5-star rated hospital compared to the U.S. hospital average.
If all hospitals performed at the level of a 5-star rated hospital, 110,687 orthopedic in-hospital complications may have been avoided among Medicare patients over the three years studied.
HealthGrades’ hospital ratings and awards reflect the track record of patient outcomes at hospitals in the form of mortality and complication rates. HealthGrades rates hospitals independently based on data that hospitals submit to the federal government. No hospital can opt in or out of being rated, and no hospital pays to be rated.
For 28 procedures and treatments, HealthGrades issues star ratings that reflect the mortality and complication rates for each category of care. Hospitals receiving a 5-star rating have mortality or complication rates that are below the national average, to a statistically significant degree. A 3-star rating means the hospital performs as expected. One-star ratings indicate the hospital’s mortality or complication rates in that procedure or treatment are statistically higher than average. Because the risk profiles of patient populations at hospitals are not alike, HealthGrades risk-adjusts the data to allow for apples-to-apples comparisons.
More information on today’s HealthGrades study, including the complete methodology, can be found at www.healthgrades.com.
Saint Francis Medical Center is a 258-bed facility serving more than 650,000 people throughout Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. Guided by its mission to provide a ministry of healing and wellness inspired by its Christian philosophy and values, the Medical Center has become a progressive, innovative regional tertiary care referral center. Saint Francis’ major service lines, which have received national recognition, include the Neurosciences Institute; Thomas G. Otto, MD, Orthopaedic Institute; Family BirthPlace, featuring the region’s first Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Heart Institute; Gene E. Huckstep Emergency Center/Level III Trauma Center with Convenient Care; Cancer Institute; and Fitness Plus. Saint Francis is constructing a combined Heart Hospital and Cancer Institute, where patients will have access to advanced treatments and technology – under one convenient roof. To learn more about this exciting new project and to follow its progress, visit www.MoreForYou.md. Saint Francis was named number four on Modern Healthcare magazine’s 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare in 2008 – no other Missouri hospital was in the top 20 – and ranked among the top 10 percent in the nation for outstanding patient experience by HealthGrades® in 2009/2010.
As a result, Saint Francis received the 2010 Orthopedic Surgery Excellence Award™ and is ranked among the top three hospitals in Missouri for overall orthopedics. These exceptional rankings are the result of five-star ratings for overall orthopaedics, total knee replacement, total hip replacement and hip fracture repair.
“Providing quality care is our number one goal,” says Saint Francis President and Chief Executive Officer Steven C. Bjelich, FACHE-D. “To have an organization like HealthGrades validate our outcomes, only proves that Saint Francis Medical Center’s orthopaedics program is one of the best. I am very proud of the physicians and staff that provide outstanding orthopaedic care.”
The HealthGrades study, the largest annual report of its kind, analyzed patient outcomes in nearly 40 million Medicare hospitalization records from 5,000 hospitals over the years 2006, 2007 and 2008. Among the findings related to in-hospital complications in this year’s study are:
Across all procedures in which complications were studied, there was a 79.69 percent lower chance of experiencing one or more in-hospital complications in a 5-star rated hospital compared to a 1-star rated hospital.
Across all procedures studied, there was a 61.22 percent lower chance of experiencing one or more in-hospital complications in a 5-star rated hospital compared to the U.S. hospital average.
If all hospitals performed at the level of a 5-star rated hospital, 110,687 orthopedic in-hospital complications may have been avoided among Medicare patients over the three years studied.
HealthGrades’ hospital ratings and awards reflect the track record of patient outcomes at hospitals in the form of mortality and complication rates. HealthGrades rates hospitals independently based on data that hospitals submit to the federal government. No hospital can opt in or out of being rated, and no hospital pays to be rated.
For 28 procedures and treatments, HealthGrades issues star ratings that reflect the mortality and complication rates for each category of care. Hospitals receiving a 5-star rating have mortality or complication rates that are below the national average, to a statistically significant degree. A 3-star rating means the hospital performs as expected. One-star ratings indicate the hospital’s mortality or complication rates in that procedure or treatment are statistically higher than average. Because the risk profiles of patient populations at hospitals are not alike, HealthGrades risk-adjusts the data to allow for apples-to-apples comparisons.
More information on today’s HealthGrades study, including the complete methodology, can be found at www.healthgrades.com.
Saint Francis Medical Center is a 258-bed facility serving more than 650,000 people throughout Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. Guided by its mission to provide a ministry of healing and wellness inspired by its Christian philosophy and values, the Medical Center has become a progressive, innovative regional tertiary care referral center. Saint Francis’ major service lines, which have received national recognition, include the Neurosciences Institute; Thomas G. Otto, MD, Orthopaedic Institute; Family BirthPlace, featuring the region’s first Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; Heart Institute; Gene E. Huckstep Emergency Center/Level III Trauma Center with Convenient Care; Cancer Institute; and Fitness Plus. Saint Francis is constructing a combined Heart Hospital and Cancer Institute, where patients will have access to advanced treatments and technology – under one convenient roof. To learn more about this exciting new project and to follow its progress, visit www.MoreForYou.md. Saint Francis was named number four on Modern Healthcare magazine’s 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare in 2008 – no other Missouri hospital was in the top 20 – and ranked among the top 10 percent in the nation for outstanding patient experience by HealthGrades® in 2009/2010.
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