HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Awards for Patient SafetyTM - April 2006
Based on a study released in April 2006, HealthGrades identified 238 hospitals reaching the top 15 percent in the nation in terms of patient safety, qualifying them to receive the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Patient Safety™. The award was designed to highlight hospitals with the best records of patient safety in the nation and to encourage consumers to research their local hospitals’ patient safety records before undergoing a procedure. As a category, Medicare patients at Distinguished Hospitals experienced patient safety incidents, on average, 43.27 percent less often than patients at the bottom 15 percent of all hospitals.
Three QHR hospital clients were named to this list:
Thibodaux Regional Medical Center, Thibodaux, LA
Tuomey Regional Medical Center, Sumter, SC
Wooster Community Hospital, Wooster, OH
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