2009 Patient Safety Excellence Award

Provena St. Mary's Hospital - Top 5% in the Nation
Patient Safety Excellence Award™
Two Years in a Row!
 

The nation's leading source for healthcare quality information announced that Provena St. Mary's Hospital is a recipient of the 2009 HealthGrades® Patient Safety Excellence Award™ for the second year in a row!

Provena St. Mary's Hospital is one of only 14 hospitals in Illinois to receive this distinction in 2009 and one of only 10 hospitals in Illinois to receive this distinction two years in a row.

We know that you take the necessary steps to keep you and your family safe.  At Provena St. Mary's Hospital, the dedicated and consistent professional expertise of the physicians, nurses, and staff ensure quality care, unmatched performance, and significant outcomes that ensure you are in safe hands...every step of the way. 

What does this mean to patients and their families:

• Proper Hand Hygiene
• Nationally Accredited Chest Pain Center
• eICU-24 hour patient monitoring
• HUGS and KISSES Infant Security System
• MRSA Prevention
• Quality reports
• Rapid Response Team- a team of trained professionals who emergently responds
  to the potential or actual worsening of a patients condition.
• Rounding for Outcomes - Patient-centered activities to assess patients overall safety
  and satisfaction on a continuous basis
• Risk Adjusted Mortality -  observed rate of mortality versus the expected rate of mortality.  Every patient admitted for a given condition does not have the same risk of death; therefore, a risk-adjusted method is used to account for the impact of individual risk factors:   
  PSMH has had an overall consistently low rate of mortality.

 

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