January 27, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
CONTACTS: Cheri Russum, 425-304-0591, cheri.russum@providence.org; HealthGrades, Scott Shapiro, 720-963-6584, sshapiro@healthgrades.com
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett’s Quality
Among the Top Five Percent in Nation
Four Years Running
EVERETT, Wash. (January 27, 2010) – Providence Regional Medical Center Everett ranks among the top five percent of hospitals nationally for quality four years in a row, according to a new study issued today by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization.
Due to the hospital’s continued high quality patient care across more than two dozen common procedures and diagnoses, it has been named a HealthGrades 2010 Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence™. Providence Regional is the only hospital in the state to receive the award four years in row. The comprehensive study analyzed 40 million hospitalization records from 5,000 hospitals over the years 2006 to 2008.
As a group, hospitals like Providence Regional that rank in the top five percent in the nation by the eighth annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence study, had better patient outcomes and were improving their outcomes at a faster rate than all nonfederal other hospitals.
Risk-adjusted mortality rates at Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence were 29% lower when compared to the other 95% of hospitals. Inhospital complication rates were 9% lower. In addition, these hospitals improved their mortality rates by an average of 14%, while the other 95% of hospitals improved by an average of 10%. Only 269 hospitals across the nation are 2010 Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence.
“Providence Regional’s quality journey began several years ago with a careful and innovative process leading to enhanced quality that includes following evidence-based medicine,” says David Brooks, CEO. “Physician-led initiatives such as blood conservation for surgery patients and our cardiac surgery single stay unit have proven to have better patient outcomes. These are just a few examples of the innovative work by our physicians and staff that led to Providence Regional being named a Distinguished Hospital.”
It has become an industry standard to evaluate and compare the quality of care at hospitals in terms of patient outcomes, the mortality and complication rates that patients experience at each hospital compared with all other hospitals.
“Our data show that only a select few hospitals achieve high-quality patient outcomes not just in a few categories of care, but across the board and over time,” said Rick May, MD, a vice president with HealthGrades and an author of the study. “Patients in communities with a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence should feel proud of the hospital’s accomplishments, and confident that the level of care there is among the very best in the nation.”
Contributing to Providence Regional’s recognition are patient outcomes in several specialty areas, including five star ratings for:
• Treatment of heart attack
• Treatment of heart failure
• Stroke treatment
• Pneumonia treatment
• Prancreatitis
• Appendectomy
• Treatment of sepsis (systemic infection of the blood stream)
• Treatment of pulmonary embolism which is the blockage of one or more arteries in the lungs, often caused by a blood clot traveling to the lungs from another part of the body
• Treatment of respiratory failure
In a separate HealthGrades study released last fall, Providence Regional was ranked the number one hospital in Washington for:
• Overall cardiac care – number one for the third year in a row
• Cardiology – number one for the third year in a row
• Critical Care – number one for the third year in a row
Methodology
This is the eighth year that HealthGrades has independently analyzed the clinical quality performance of all non-federal hospitals across the country in 26 procedures and diagnoses. In the study, the company reviewed approximately 40 million hospitalization records from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, over the years 2006, 2007 and 2008. All hospitals that participate in the Medicare program were part of the independent study. Hospitals that receive the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence are those hospitals that rank in the top 5% when all 26 individual scores are aggregated into an overall score.
About Providence Regional Medical Center Everett
Providence Regional Medical Center Everett is a tertiary referral center serving five counties with comprehensive, not-for-profit, mission-based health care. In addition to its award-winning cardiac, critical care and vascular services, Providence Regional Medical Center Everett also offers general medical and surgical care, and specialized treatment in areas such as oncology, newborn intensive care, orthopedics, neurosurgery, trauma, and pediatrics. Providence Regional Medical Center Everett has two campuses located at 1321 Colby and 916 Pacific Avenue in Everett. For more information, visit www.providence.org
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A full copy of the study is available at http://www.healthgrades.com or by contacting Scott Shapiro at sshapiro@healthgrades.com.
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