Floyd Memorial Hospital and Health Services announced today that a nationwide study has ranked its clinical quality among the top 5% in the nation for the second year in a row. The study by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings organization, analyzed patient outcomes at each of the nation’s 5,000 nonfederal hospitals over the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 and named hospitals in the top five percent as HealthGrades Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence™.
“Above all else, the quality of care we provide for patients is of utmost importance at Floyd Memorial,” said Mark Shugarman, FACHE, Floyd Memorial President and CEO. “Through the excellence of our physicians and staff, we look forward to building on our tradition of excellence from year-to-year and setting the precedent for excellent clinical care throughout the healthcare industry.”
According to the eighth annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence study, Floyd Memorial and the other hospitals in the top 5% demonstrated patient outcomes that far exceeded those of other hospitals. Patients admitted to these hospitals had risk-adjusted mortality rates that were, on average, 29% lower than all other hospitals. Risk-adjusted complication rates were, on average, 9% lower than all other hospitals.
Floyd Memorial is one of only 269 hospitals that received this distinction from HealthGrades. “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.”In addition to being ranked among the top five percent nationally for overall clinical quality, Floyd Memorial achieved exceptional rankings in many other areas measured by HealthGrades:
- Best Rated in Louisville/Southern Indiana* for Overall Cardiovascular Services and Surgery
- Ranked in the Top 3 in Indiana for Cardiac Surgery and Overall Cardiac Services
- Five-Star Rated for Coronary Bypass Surgery – 2 Years in a Row
- Five-Star Rated for Treatment of Heart Attack and Heart Failure
- Best Rated in Louisville/Southern Indiana* for Overall Pulmonary Care
- Best Rated in Louisville/Southern Indiana* for GI Services and Procedures and Gastrointestinal Care
- Ranked #1 in Indiana for Gastrointestinal (GI) Surgery
- Five-Star Rated for Hip Fracture Repair – Five Years in a Row
* Louisville/Southern Indiana region as defined by the Federal Government’s Office of Management and Budget.
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.
