Roseland Community
Hospital Among Best in Nation for Pulmonary Care: Study
HealthGrades study finds patient outcomes at Roseland
Community Hospital among the top 5% in the Nation for
Pulmonary Care
CHICAGO, IL -- According
to the Tenth Annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in
America Study, Roseland Community Hospital ranks among
the top 5% in the nation for overall Pulmonary care. The
study, the largest of its kind, analyzed patient outcomes at
virtually all of the nation's 5,000 hospitals over the years
2004, 2005 and 2006.
The study also found that Roseland
Community Hospital is five-star rated for Treatment of
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Treatment of
Pneumonia.
Patients admitted to the nation’s
top-performing hospitals, five-star hospitals like Roseland
Community Hospital, have, on average, a 71 percent lower
chance of dying than those treated at one-star hospitals
across 18 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 Tenth 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
Medicare discharges from virtually every U.S. hospital
between 2004 and 2006. 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 28 diagnoses and procedures from
heart failure to hip replacement to pneumonia.
Among the study’s key findings:
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Gaps persist between the “best” and
the “worst” hospitals across all procedures and
conditions studied. Five-star rated hospitals, such as
Roseland Community Hospital had statistically
significantly lower risk-adjusted mortality across all
three years studied.
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Across all procedures and
conditions studied, there was an approximate 71 percent
lower chance of dying in a 5-star rated hospital
compared to a 1-star rated hospital.
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Across all procedures and
conditions studied, there was an approximate 52 percent
lower chance of dying in a 5-star rated hospital
compared to the U.S. hospital average.
The 2008 HealthGrades ratings for all
hospitals nationwide are available, free of charge, on the
organization’s award-winning consumer Web site, located at
www.healthgrades.com. More than three 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.
