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Holy Name Hospital Among Top Five Percent in Nation According to Quality Study

January 29, 2007

Holy Name is recognized for outstanding performance by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings company

Teaneck, NJ (January 29, 2007) Holy Name Hospital announced today that it is among the nation's top five percent of hospitals for the third straight year, according to a study of mortality and complication rates by HealthGrades, the nation's leading independent healthcare ratings company.

Holy Name's outstanding quality performance has earned the hospital HealthGrades' 2007 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence.  Holy Name Hospital joins only five hospitals in New Jersey to have achieved this distinction three years in a row.  

According to the HealthGrades study, issued January 29, 2007, patients admitted to a hospital receiving this award are, on average, 28 percent less likely to face mortality and 5 percent less likely to suffer from a major complication. This year, only 266 of the nation's 4,971 non-federal hospitals will receive this distinction.

HealthGrades estimates that if all patients were treated at Distinguished Hospitals, 158,264 lives could have been saved and 12,410 post-operative complications could have been avoided during the three years studied.

"Quality of care is our top priority at Holy Name. Providing our patients and families with the best care possible is inherent in our mission, vision, and values," said Michael Maron, Holy Name Hospital president/CEO.  "Being named as a top hospital in one of the largest healthcare studies in America validates all we strive to achieve."

In addition to receiving recognition for being in the Top 5% for overall clinical quality, Holy Name Hospital also received recognition from HealthGrades for excellence in Pulmonary and Gastrointestinal Services, ranking among the Top 10% in the Nation for these specialties.

Each year, HealthGrades independently analyzes the clinical quality performance of all non-federal hospitals across the country in 28 procedures and diagnoses. In the Distinguished Hospital Study, the company reviewed tens of millions of hospitalization records over the years 2003, 2004 and 2005. Hospitals that receive the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence are those hospitals that rank in the top five percent when all 28 individual scores are aggregated into an overall score.