Dan Woloszyn, CEO of Van Matre HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital (VMHS), has announced that Van Matre ranked number three in clinical quality for the first quarter of 2009 out of over 90 HealthSouth rehabilitation hospitals nationwide. This is the eleventh time Van Matre has achieved a clinical ranking placing them in the top ten.
“Our fantastic clinical outcomes and our consistent national ranking prove beyond a doubt that Van Matre is truly one of the best rehab hospitals in the country,” said Woloszyn. “I am very proud to lead such a group of talented professionals and honored to serve the rehab needs of Rockford and the surrounding communities,” he added.
Each quarter, HealthSouth looks at all its inpatient rehabilitation hospitals and judges them on several performance measures including the gains patients made during inpatient rehab, the percentage of patients who were able to go home after inpatient rehab, and patient satisfaction scores. Below is an overview of how Van Matre performed for the first quarter of this year.
- Average length of stay per patient was 13.6 days.
- Patients’ functional improvement scores increased by 34 points from admission to discharge which exceeded that standard goal of 25 indicating excellent progression toward goals throughout the course of a patient’s inpatient stay.
- Patients made better functional improvements at VMHS when compared to regional and national norm data inclusive of both HealthSouth and other rehabilitation hospitals across the nation.
- Eighty-seven percent of all VMHS patients (not including those who were transferred to an acute care hospital) were able to go home at discharge.
- Ninety-six percent of patients surveyed said they would recommend VMHS to family and friends.
Van Matre HealthSouth located in Rockford, is a partnership between HealthSouth Corporation and Rockford Health System.