Consumer Reports has released its patient safety rankings for more than 2,500 hospitals.
The rankings were based on a composite score between one and 100 of five quality measures using data from CMS and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The measures include mortality, admissions, overuse of imaging, healthcare-associated infections and communication, according to a Medscape report on the rankings.
Here are the 15 top ranking hospitals from the report.
• Miles Memorial Hospital, Damariscotta, Maine
• Oaklawn Hospital, Marshall, Mich.
• Aurora Medical Center, Oshkosh, Wis.
• Lutheran Hospital, Cleveland
• Palm Drive Hospital, Sebastopol, Calif.
• Marshalltown (Iowa) Medical & Surgical Center
• Hillside Hospital, Pulaski, Tenn.
• Margaret R. Pardee Memorial Hospital, Hendersonville, N.C.
• Spectrum Health United Hospital, Greenville, Mich.
• St. John Medical Center, Westlake, Ohio
• Sonoma (Calif.) Valley Hospital
• UnityPoint Health-Trinity Regional Med Center, Fort Dodge, Iowa
• UnityPoint Health-Finley Hospital, Dubuque, Iowa
• Lovelace Westside Hospital, Albuquerque, N.M.
• Boulder (Colo.) Community Hospital
Here are the 15 lowest ranking hospitals from the report.
• Bolivar Medical Center, Cleveland, Miss.
• Tulane Medical Center, New Orleans
• Harris Hospital, Newport, Ark.
• Lake Cumberland Regional Hospital, Somerset, Ky.
• Delta Regional Medical Center, Greenville, Miss,
• Beckley (W.V) ARH Hospital
• Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare, Utica, N.Y.
• Poplar Bluff (Mo.) Regional Medical Center
• Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, N.Y.
• Avoyelles Hospital, Marksville, La.
• Nyack (N.Y.) Hospital
• St. Petersburg (Fla.) General Hospital
• Methodist Hospitals, Gary, Ind.
The analysis also finds mortality rates in top scoring hospitals are significantly lower than those in low scoring hospitals. For example, mortality rates for pneumonia were 8.5 percent for top scoring hospitals and 16.1 percent for low scoring hospitals. Mortality rates for heart failure were 8.5 percent for top scoring hospitals and 15.8 percent for low scoring hospitals. For heart attack patients, mortality rates were 12.4 percent for top scoring hospitals and 18.1 percent for lowing scoring hospitals.
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