A study issued today by HealthGrades, Inc., the leading independent healthcare ratings organization, finds that Good Samaritan Hospital is among the Top 5% in the Nation for Treatment of Stroke and Top 10% in the Nation for Joint Replacement. The nation’s nearly 5,000 nonfederal hospitals were all included in the sweeping study, which examined mortality rates and complication rates from government data from 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Good Samaritan Hospital continues to build on its long-standing history of delivering top-rated quality care across 9 major service areas including Cardiac, Orthopedics, Stroke Care, Pulmonary Services, Gastrointestinal Services, Critical Care, General Surgery, Maternity Care and Women’s Health Services. HealthGrades further acknowledged Good Samaritan Hospital’s quality performance with the following ratings including:
- 5-Star Rated for Treatment of Heart Failure 8 Years in a Row (2003-2010)
- 5-Star Rated for Total Knee Replacement 4 Years in a Row (2007-2010)
- 5-Star Rated for Total Hip Replacement 3 Years in a Row (2008-2010)
- 5-Star Rated for Treatment of Stroke 8 Years in a Row (2003-2010)
- 5-Star Rated for Treatment of Pneumonia 8 Years in a Row (2003-2010)
- 5-Star Rated for Treatment of GI Bleed 5 Years in a Row (2006-2010)
- 5-Star Rated for Treatment of Sepsis 5 Years in a Row (2006-2010)
- 5-Star Rated for Treatment of Respiratory Failure 3 Years in a Row (2008-2010)
The HealthGrades twelfth annual Hospital Quality in America study, the largest annual report of its kind, analyzed patient outcomes from nearly 40 million Medicare hospitalization records.
Top-performing hospitals had dramatically lower mortality rates than other hospitals, according to the study. For the 17 procedures and diagnoses for which HealthGrades analyzed mortality rates, patients at top hospitals had a 72 percent lower chance of dying when compared with the lowest-performing hospitals, and a 52 percent lower chance of dying when compared to the U.S. national average.