Boca Raton Regional Hospital announced today that Healthgrades®, the nation’s leading independent healthcare ratings organization, has named it a Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence™ for the ninth year in a row – a claim only 34 of the nation’s 5,000 hospitals can make. This prestigious distinction places Boca Raton Regional Hospital among the top 5% of hospitals nationwide for clinical performance.
This latest accolade for Boca Raton Regional Hospital adds to a growing list of honors. In addition to the 2013 Distinguished Hospital Award, the Hospital is also the recipient of Healthgrades 2013 America’s Best 100 Hospitals for Cardiac Care and Gastrointestinal Care for the second consecutive year.
Overall, Boca Regional achieved 13 Five-Star Ratings (the highest possible), four Specialty Excellence Awards and #1 in state rankings for Gastrointestinal Medical. The Hospital was also ranked in the top 10% nationally for Overall Cardiac Services, Cardiology Services and General Surgery and in the top 5% nationally for Treatment of Stroke, Overall Gastrointestinal Services and Gastrointestinal Medical Treatment.
“What is most significant about this accolade is that it represents the ninth year Boca Raton Regional Hospital has earned it,” said Jerry Fedele, President and CEO of Boca Regional. “This is strong testimony to the dedication and commitment of our physicians, nurses, staff and volunteers give day in and day out to the patients we serve.”
Healthgrades Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence study, released today, objectively identifies those hospitals with the best overall clinical performance across 27 medical diagnoses and procedures that the organization rates. These 262 top-performing hospitals represent only 5% of the nation’s hospitals and each is designated as a Healthgrades Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence™.
Unlike other hospital quality studies, Healthgrades evaluates hospitals solely on clinical outcomes: risk-adjusted mortality and in-hospital complications. Healthgrades analysis is based on approximately 40 million Medicare discharges for the years 2009, 2010 and 2011. Using these top-performing hospitals as a benchmark in this year’s Healthgrades study, Healthgrades quantifies the impact of differences in hospital quality in terms of lives lost and unexpected complications.
The Healthgrades study found that:
- Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence had a 30.9% lower risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality rate across 18 conditions and procedures as compared to all other U.S. hospitals evaluated.
- In fact, if all hospitals performed at the level of Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence between 2009 and 2011, 164,414 lives could potentially have been saved.