Rockford Memorial Hospital is five-star rated and ranked among the top ten percent of all U.S. hospitals for prostatectomy services, according to a national quality study released by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization. As a result, Rockford Memorial is a recipient of the 2010 HealthGrades Prostatectomy Excellence Award™.
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 inhospital 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 inhospital 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 inhospital complications in a 5-star rated hospital compared to the U.S. hospital average.
The 2010 HealthGrades hospital ratings are posted at
www.healthgrades.com, HealthGrades’ public Web site.
HealthGrades Ratings
HealthGrades’ hospital ratings and awards reflect the track record of patient outcomes at hospitals in the form of risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates. HealthGrades rates hospitals independently based on data that hospitals submit to the federal government.
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 the HealthGrades study, including the complete methodology, can be found at
www.healthgrades.com.