Provena Covenant Among Nation’s Best For Orthopedics
10/15/2007
Urbana, IL -- The quality of hospital-based
care in America is improving, but the gap between top-performing and
poor-performing hospitals persists according to The Tenth Annual HealthGrades
Hospital Quality in America Study released today by HealthGrades, which
identifies Provena Covenant as being five-star rated for total knee and joint
replacements three years in a row. HealthGrades is the nation's leading
independent healthcare ratings company.
The study, which documents a significant variation in
care quality between the highest-performing hospitals and all others, also found
that if all hospitals performed at the level of hospitals rated with five stars
by HealthGrades, 266,604 Medicare lives could have potentially been saved over
the three years studied.
"Our research shows that while the overall quality of
hospital care in America is improving, the gap between the best-performing
hospitals and the worst persists," said Dr. Samantha Collier, HealthGrades'
chief medical officer and author of the study. "This persistent gap makes it
imperative that anyone planning to be admitted to a hospital do their homework
and seek out highly rated facilities."
"This independent research shows that Provena Covenant
continues to be the quality leader in the area for joint replacement
procedures," said David Bertauski, CEO of Provena Central Illinois. "This new
rating means that residents of east-central Illinois have one more reason to the
care they receive from us."
Recent quality awards earned by Provena Covenant
include:
Ranked among the top 5% of hospitals nationwide for
patient safety by HealthGrades® in/for 2007.
A Solcuient Top 100 Cardiovascular Hospital in 2006
for providing excellent heart care.
Five-Star Rated for total knee replacement 3 years in
a row (2006, 2007 and 2008) by HealthGrades®.
Five-Star rated for joint replacement surgery 3 years
in a row (2006, 2007 and 2008) by HealthGrades®.
Recipient of the Total Benchmark Solution Top 25
Health System Quality Award in 2006.
The Tenth Annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in
America Study identifies key trends in the quality of care provided by
approximately 5,000 hospitals nationwide. HealthGrades researchers analyzed
Medicare discharges from every U.S. hospital between 2004 and 2006.
Risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates were calculated and hospitals
were assigned a 1-star (poor), 3-star (as expected), or 5-star (best) quality
rating for 28 diagnoses and procedures from heart failure to hip replacement to
pneumonia.
Individual hospital quality results from this study are available at www.healthgrades.com.
