That's not us talking, it's HealthGrades® — the nation's leading independent health care ratings organization.
If you have heart problems, it's good to know that the best quality care — anywhere — is just minutes away, at Southcoast Hospitals.
Our 2010 HealthGrades report card
SPECIALTY EXCELLENCE AWARDS
- HealthGrades Cardiac Care Excellence Award
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - HealthGrades Angioplasty/Stent Excellence Award
2008, 2009, 2010
- Ranked among the top 10% in U.S. for Overall Cardiac Services
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Ranked among the top 5 hospitals in Massachusetts for Overall Cardiac Services
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Ranked among the top 5 hospitals in Massachusetts for Angioplasty/Stent Procedures
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - 1 of only 3 hospitals in Massachusetts ranked among the top 10% in the nation for overall heart services 3 years in a row
2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Ranked among the top 10 hospitals in Massachusetts for Cardiac Surgery
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Ranked among the top 5% in U.S. for Angioplasty/Stent Procedures
2008, 2009, 2010
Click here to read a news release about our complete 2009 HealthGrades report card for heart services
About HealthGrades
The HealthGrades 2009 quality ratings for virtually every hospital in the country are available at www.healthgrades.com.
On its Website, HealthGrades offers, free to consumers, quality ratings of 27 procedures and treatments for virtually every hospital in the country. HealthGrades' Website is designed so that consumers can easily compare patient outcomes at their local hospitals for procedures ranging from aortic aneurysm repair to bypass surgery.
Each hospital receives a star rating based on its patient outcomes in terms of mortality or complication rates for each procedure or treatment. Hospitals with outcomes that are above average to a statistically significant degree receive a five-star rating. Hospitals with average outcomes receive a three-star rating. Hospitals with outcomes that are below average receive a one-star rating.
Because no two hospitals or their patients' risk profiles are alike, HealthGrades employs extensive risk-adjustment algorithms to ensure that it is making analogous comparisons.
The 2009 findings were included in the 11th annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study that analyzed more than 41 million Medicare hospitalization records from 2005 to 2007 at the nation's approximately 5,000 non-federal hospitals. According to the study, if all hospitals performed at the level of five-star rated hospitals, 237,420 Medicare deaths could potentially have been prevented over the three years studied (2005 to 2007). More than half of those preventable deaths were associated with four conditions: sepsis, pneumonia, heart failure and respiratory failure. http://www.healthgrades.com/press-releases/
The study also claims that while overall death rates declined from 2005 to 2007, the nation's best-performing hospitals were able to reduce preventable deaths at a much faster rate than poor-performing hospitals, resulting in large state, regional and hospital-to-hospital variations in the quality of patient care, the study found.
Links & Resources
American Heart Association | Fighting heart disease and stroke.
