Healthgrades names 260 facilities as Distinguished Hospitals for safety, quality; See the list

Healthcare ratings company Healthgrades this week named the 2016 winners for their Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence. In all, 260 hospitals received the commendation.

The awards are based on quality data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on all hospitals nationwide that participate in Medicare. The period of evaluation for the 2016 awards involved inpatient stays from 2012 to 2014.

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According to Healthgrades, the winning hospitals are among the top 5 percent of hospitals nationwide that "deliver high quality care across at least 21 of 32 common patient conditions and procedures." Those conditions and procedures include but are not limited to: Appendectomy, hip replacement, pacemaker procedures and spinal fusion. Healthgrades also said that the awarded hospitals as a group had a 26.5 percent lower mortality rate across 19 procedures and conditions where a patient could die if something goes wrong. Those 19 procedures included but were not limited to: bowel obstruction, heart attack, pancreatitis, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, sepsis and stroke.

"During this same period, if all other hospitals performed at the level of Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence across these 19 procedures and conditions, 158,858 lives could potentially have been saved," to company said.

Here is the full list of winners.

Data compiled by Jeff Lagasse

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