Rockford Memorial Hospital today announced that it has received 5-Star ratings and top area rankings for clinical quality from HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization. The recognition is based on HealthGrades’ twelfth annual Hospital Quality in America study, released today, which analyzes patient outcomes at virtually all of the nation’s hospitals.
In the 2010 HealthGrades ratings, specific highlights for Rockford Memorial include:
· Ranked among the top 10 in Illinois for overall orthopedic services
· Ranked among the top 5 in Illinois for spine surgery
· Five-Star rated for treatment of heart failure – 3 years in a row
· Five-star rated for overall orthopedic services
· Five-star rated fro spine surgery – 2 years in a row
· Five-star rated for hip fracture repair
· Five-star rated for prostate surgery
· Five-star rated for back and neck surgery – 4 years in a row
· Five-star rated for treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease – 4 years in a row
· Five-star rated for treatment of pneumonia – 8 years in a row
· Five-star rated for GI procedures and surgeries
· Five-star rated for treatment of bowel obstruction – 4 years in a row
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. This year’s study found:
· Across all 17 procedures and diagnoses in which mortality was studied, there was an approximate 72 percent lower chance of dying in a 5-star rated hospital compared to a 1-star rated hospital, and a 52 percent lower chance of dying in a 5-star hospital compared with the national average.
· If all hospitals performed at the level of a 5-star rated hospital across the 17 procedures and diagnoses studied, 224,537 Medicare lives could potentially have been saved from 2006 through 2008.
The new 2010 HealthGrades hospital ratings, and complete methodology, were posted today at
www.healthgrades.com, HealthGrades’ public Web site.