Munroe Regional Medical Center is proud to announce its cardiovascular center, Munroe Heart, has been recognized with the cardiac care excellence award for the fourth consecutive year (2006-2009) by HealthGrades. Munroe has also be named by HealthGrades as the best (#1) in Florida for coronary interventional procedures for the second consecutive year (2008-2009) and ranks among the Top 5% in the nation for overall cardiac services in 2009, according to the Eleventh Annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America Study.
The study also found that Munroe Heart has been recognized for the following:
- Cardiac Care Excellence Award Four Years in a Row (2006-2009).
- Coronary Intervention Excellence Award Two Years in a Row (2008 & 2009).
- #1 in Florida for Coronary Interventional Procedures Two Years in a Row (2008 & 2009).
- Top 5% in the Nation for Overall Cardiac Services in 2009.
- Top 5% in the Nation for Cardiology Services Two Years in a Row (2008 & 2009).
- Top 5% in the Nation for Coronary Interventional Procedures Four Years in a Row (2006-2009).
- Five-Star Rated for Overall Cardiac Services in 2009.
- Five-Star Rated for Cardiology Services Four Years in a Row (2006-2009).
- Five-Star Rated for Coronary Interventional Procedures Six Years in a Row (2004-2009).
- Five-Star Rated for Treatment of Heart Failure Six Years in a Row (2004-2009).
“Receiving these accolades and awards from HealthGrades is a tremendous honor for Munroe Regional and our Munroe Heart program,” said Munroe Regional Medical Center’s President & CEO Steve Purves. “It is a testament to the hard work and dedication of all of our physicians, surgeons, associates, and volunteers and their commitment to providing the highest quality of care to our community.”
Patients admitted to the nations top-performing hospitals, five-star hospitals like Munroe Regional Medical Center have, on average, a 70 percent lower chance of dying than those treated at one-star hospitals across 17 common procedures and conditions analyzed, according to the study. HealthGrades is the nation’s leading independent ratings company.
“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.”
The Eleventh 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 more than 41 million Medicare hospitalization records from virtually every U.S. hospital between 2005 and 2007. 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 27 diagnoses and procedures from heart failure to hip replacement to pneumonia.
Among the study’s key findings:
- Gaps persist between the “best” and the “worst” hospitals across all procedures and conditions studied. Five-star rated hospitals, such as Munroe Regional, had statistically significantly lower risk-adjusted mortality across all three years studied.
- Across all procedures and conditions studied, there was an approximate 70 percent lower chance of dying in a 5-star rated hospital compared to a 1-star rated hospital.
The 2009 HealthGrades ratings for all hospitals nationwide are available, free of charge, on the organization’s consumer Web site, located at www.healthgrades.com. More than six million individuals and employees of some of the nation’s largest employers and health plans visit HealthGrades each month to access quality information about hospitals, nursing homes and physicians. HealthGrades also provides consumers and payers with detailed assessments of hospitals’ patient-safety outcomes, based on indicators developed by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.