Lansdale Hospital Receives Healthgrades® 2013 Patient Safety Excellence Award™
Lansdale, PA (PRWEB) October 14, 2013 -- October 14, 2013 – Lansdale Hospital announced that it has achieved Healthgrades 2013 Patient Safety Excellence Award™, according to Healthgrades, the leading online resource that helps consumers search, evaluate, compare and connect with physicians and hospitals. The distinction places Lansdale Hospital within the top ten percent of all hospitals for its excellent performance in safeguarding patients from serious, potentially preventable complications during their hospital stays.
When compared to hospitals performing in the bottom 5 percent for patient safety, Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™ recipients had three patient safety indicators showing the largest difference in observed to expected ratios. On average, patients treated in Patient Safety Excellence Award hospitals were also:
• 81 percent less likely to experience hip fracture following surgery compared to hospitals ranked in the bottom 5 percent in the nation
• 80 percent less likely to experience pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital compared to hospitals ranked in the bottom 5 percent in the nation1
• 70 percent less likely to experience a catheter-related bloodstream Infection acquired in the hospital compared to hospitals ranked in the bottom 5 percent in the nation1
“We’re proud to receive the Healthgrades 2013 Patient Safety Excellence Award,” says Nancy Hesse, MSN, RN, chief nursing officer. “It is a true testament to the excellent patient care provided at Lansdale Hospital.”
“Healthgrades report highlights the variation in hospital quality, both locally and across the nation, in order to show consumers that spending time on understanding hospital performance can be a matter of life and death,” said Evan Marks, EVP Informatics and Strategy, Healthgrades. “Consumers can be assured that a hospital that has been recognized with a Healthgrades 2013 Patient Safety Excellence Award has demonstrated an established commitment to patient safety.”
During the 2013 study period (2009-2011), Patient Safety Excellence Award hospitals showed better than expected performance in providing safety for patients in the Medicare population, as measured by objective outcomes (risk-adjusted patient safety indicator rates) across 13 of the 14 most common patient safety indicators, as defined by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
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About Lansdale Hospital
Lansdale Hospital is a 135-bed, non-profit, acute care hospital that provides a comprehensive range of inpatient and outpatient healthcare services. The facility includes a 24-hour Emergency Department, the 18-bed Orthopaedic & Spine Institute, a 13-bed Acute Rehabilitation Unit, two Sleep Centers, a Wound Care Center and a Pain Center. Owned and operated by Abington Health, Lansdale Hospital has more than 700 employees and a staff of more than 300 active physicians.
1 Statistics are based on Healthgrades application of QI Windows® Software (version 4.4), developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
About Healthgrades
Healthgrades, headquartered in Denver, Colorado, is the leading online resource of comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals. More than 225 million visitors use the Healthgrades websites to search, evaluate, compare and connect with physicians and hospitals that best meet their treatment needs. Consumers are empowered through use of the Healthgrades proprietary information about clinical outcomes, satisfaction, safety, and health conditions to make more informed healthcare decisions and take action. For more information please visit http://www.healthgrades.com and http://www.bettermedicine.com.
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Denise Pitts, Lansdale Hospital, 215-361-4406, [email protected]
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