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Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center named one of Healthgrades 2014 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ Recipients – for third consecutive year

Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center announced today that it has achieved its third consecutive Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™, according to Healthgrades, the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.  This distinction for 2014 places Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center within the top 10 percent of all hospitals for its excellent performance in safeguarding patients from serious, potentially preventable complications during their hospital stays. 

When compared to hospitals performing in the bottom 5 percent for patient safety, patients treated in Healthgrades 2014 Patient Safety Excellence Award recipient hospitals, on average, were:

  • 73 percent less likely to experience pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital compared to hospitals ranked in the bottom 5 percent in the nation.[1]
  • 72 percent less likely to experience a hip fracture following surgery compared to hospitals ranked in the bottom 5 percent in the nation.1
  • 67 percent less likely to experience catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired at the hospital compared to hospitals ranked in the bottom 5 percent in the nation. 1

“Dignity Health is totally focused on the patient experience and what is known in the industry as the ‘No Harm Campaign,’” said Tom Salerno, President/CEO of St. Mary Medical Center. “St. Mary achieved particularly noteworthy results, reaching zero events of ventilator-associated pneumonia and no early elective deliveries of babies. This is a very safe hospital.” http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/zero-adverse-events-how-dignity-health-achieved-a-new-standard.html

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“Healthgrades is dedicated to providing quality information that helps consumers make decisions based on objective data leading to the best care for themselves and their families,” said Evan Marks, Executive Vice President, Informatics and Strategy, Healthgrades. “Consumers can rest assured that a hospital recognized with a Healthgrades 2014 Patient Safety Excellence Award has demonstrated an established commitment to patient safety.”

During the 2014 study period (2010-2012), Patient Safety Excellence Award hospitals showed better than expected performance in providing safety for patients in the Medicare population, as measured by objective outcomes (risk-adjusted patient safety indicator rates) across 13 of the 14 patient safety indicators defined by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).  If all hospitals performed at the same level of award recipients, 266,813 patient safety events among Medicare patients in U.S. hospitals, potentially could have been avoided.

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For more information about Healthgrades or to download a full copy of the report or to receive information about hospital and physician quality, visit: www.Healthgrades.com/quality today.

 

About Dignity Health St. Mary Medical Center

Founded by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in 1923, St. Mary Medical Center, a member of Dignity Health, offers a full continuum of primary and secondary acute care services to the Greater Long Beach community. With more than 600 physicians, more than 1,350 employees and 389 private rooms, St. Mary is committed to providing a unique balance of leading edge technology, while ensuring dignity and compassionate care of body, mind and spirit to the community it serves. In addition to the Healthgrades 2014 Patient Safety Excellence Award, St. Mary also achieved a Healthgrades 2014 Stroke Care Excellence Award, and a Bariatric Surgery Center of Excellence designation by the American Society for Bariatric Surgery. St. Mary Medical Center is a Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program Accredited Center and has a CIGNA Bariatric Center of Excellence designation. For more information, please visit us at www.stmarymedicalcenter.org.

 






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