Foundation Surgical Hospital received 5-star ratings for total knee replacement and total hip replacement as well as an outstanding patient experience award.
“We are extremely proud and honored to be recognized by these awards, as our utmost priority is to provide excellence in orthopedics and spine care. We built this hospital and partnership with quality and excellence as our goals; and our physicians, staff and administration will continue to strive toward these goals,” Henry Blum, MD, chairman of the governing board for Foundation Surgical Hospital, said in the release.
The HealthGrades study, the largest annual report of its kind, analyzed patient outcomes in nearly 40 million Medicare hospitalization records from 5,000 hospitals over the years 2006, 2007 and 2008. Among the findings related to in-hospital complications in this year’s study are:
• Across all procedures in which complications were studied, there was an 80 percent lower chance of experiencing one or more hospital complication in a 5-star rated hospital compared to a 1-star rated hospital.
• Across all procedures studied, there was a 61 percent lower chance of experiencing one or more hospital complications in a 5-star rated hospital compared to the U.S. hospital average.
• If all hospitals performed at the level of a 5-star rated hospital, 110,687 orthopedic hospital complications may have been avoided among Medicare patients over the three years studied.
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