SJRMC Recognized Among the Nation’s Best in Orthopedic Care
A HealthGrades study of hospital quality has identified Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center as the only hospital in the South Bend Region* ranked in the Top 5% in the nation for Joint Replacement and Orthopedic Surgery for the fifth year in a row (2004-2008). HealthGrades also recognized SJRMC in the Top 5% in the nation for Spine Surgery in 2008.
According to the Tenth Annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study, SJRMC achieved the following:
- Ranked Best in South Bend Region* for Overall Orthopedic Services
- Ranked Best in South Bend Region* for Joint Replacement Surgery
- Ranked Best in South Bend Region* for Spine Surgery
- Five-Star Rated for Joint Replacement Surgery, Five years in a row (2004-2008)
- Five Star Rated for Orthopedic Surgery, Five years in a row (2004-2008)
- Five-Star Rated for Total Knee Replacement, Five years in a row (2004-2008)
- Five-Star Rated for Total Hip Replacement, Five years in a row (2004-2008)
- Five Star Rated for Hip Fracture Repair, Five years in a row (2004-2008)
- Five Star Rated for Spinal Surgery, Three years in a row (2006-2008)
- Five Star Rated for Back & Neck (with Fusion), Five years in a row (2004-2008)
- Ranked Among the Top 5% in the Nation for Joint Replacement Surgery, Five years in a row (2004-2008)
- Ranked Among the Top 5% in the Nation for Orthopedic Surgery, Five years in a row (2004-2008)
- Recipient of the HealthGrades Joint Replacement Excellence Award™, Two years in a row (2007-2008)
- Recipient of the HealthGrades Orthopedic Surgery Excellence Award™, Four years in a row (2005-2008)
- Only Recipient of the Joint Replacement Surgery Excellence Award™ and Orthopedic Surgery Excellence Award™ in South Bend Region*
- Only Hospital in the Sound Bend Region* ranked in the Top 5% in the Nation for Joint Replacement, Orthopedic Surgery and Spine Surgery
- Ranked Among the Top 5 (#2) in IN for Joint Replacement Surgery
- Ranked Among the Top 5 (#2) in IN for Orthopedic Surgery
- Ranked Among the Top 5 (#2) in IN for Spinal Surgery
* Region as defined on www.healthgrades.com
“These distinctions illustrate how diligently we have worked to improve and broaden our orthopedic services,” said Nancy R. Hellyer, CEO and President of Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center. “We have no higher priority at Saint Joseph than delivering quality care to the patients we serve, and this recognition from HealthGrades is a testament to that.”
As part of its tenth annual Hospital Quality in America Study, HealthGrades independently analyzed more than 5,000 hospitals in all 50 states and the District of Columbia for its 2008 ratings, objectively assessing their clinical outcomes and quality. The 40 million hospitalization records utilized in the assessment are publicly available and licensed from the federal government’s Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The HealthGrades ratings take into account varying degrees of patient severity from hospital to hospital and measure whether patient outcomes for each of more than two dozen procedures and diagnoses are better than expected (5-Star), as expected (3-Star) or worse than expected (1-Star).
“Our research shows that while the overall quality of hospital care in America is improving, the gap between the best-performing hospitals and the worst persists,” said Dr. Samantha Collier, HealthGrades’ Chief Medical Officer and author of the study. “This persistent gap makes it imperative that anyone planning to be admitted to a hospital do their homework and seek out highly rated facilities.”
The 2008 HealthGrades ratings for all hospitals nationwide are available, free of charge, on HealthGrades’ consumer Web site, located at www.healthgrades.com. More than three million individuals visit the HealthGrades web site every month to access quality information about hospitals, nursing homes and physicians. HealthGrades also provides consumers and payers with detailed assessments of hospitals’ patient-safety outcomes, based on indicators developed by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
About HealthGrades
HealthGrades (Nasdaq:HGRD) is the leading healthcare ratings company, providing ratings and profiles of hospitals, nursing homes and physicians to consumers, corporations, health plans and hospitals. Millions of consumers and some of the nation’s largest employers, health plans and hospitals rely on HealthGrades’ independent ratings to make healthcare decisions based on the quality of care. More information on the company can be found at http://www.healthgrades.com.
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