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

February 1, 2008

Recognized for outstanding clinical performance by HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings company

Holy Name Hospital has announced that it is among the nation's top five percent of hospitals, according to an independent study of mortality and complication rates released today by HealthGrades, the nation's leading healthcare ratings company.

This is the fourth consecutive year that Holy Name Hospital has earned the Distinguished Hospital Award.  It is also the recipient of the HealthGrades 2008 Stroke, Gastrointestinal and Pulmonary Care Excellence Awards, placing it among the 10% of hospital nationally for these services.

Holy Name has achieved HealthGrades' 2008 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical ExcellenceTM based on its clinical quality performance.  According to the HealthGrades study, patients admitted to a hospital receiving this award are, on average, 27 percent less likely to face mortality and 5 percent less likely to suffer from a major complication. This year, only 269 of the nation's 4,971 non-federal hospitals received this distinction.

HealthGrades estimates that if all patients were treated at Distinguished Hospitals, 171,424 lives could have been saved and 9,671 post-operative complications could have been avoided during the three years studied.

The HealthGrades study shows that Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence are improving their patient outcomes at a greater rate in more procedures and diagnoses than all other hospitals, lowering risk-adjusted mortality rates over the years 2004, 2005, 2006 by an average of 15%.  

"The gap between top-performing hospitals and others persists," said Samantha Collier, MD, HealthGrades' chief medical officer. "But Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence like Holy Name have proven that it is possible to consistently deliver top-notch medical care consistently, across a range of procedures."

Each year, HealthGrades independently analyzes the clinical quality performance of all non-federal hospitals across the country in 27 procedures and diagnoses. In the Distinguished Hospital Study, the company reviewed tens of millions of hospitalization records from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, over the years 2004, 2005 and 2006.  All hospitals that participate in the Medicare program were part of the independent study. Hospitals that receive the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence are those hospitals that rank in the top five percent when all 27 individual scores are aggregated into an overall score.

"At Holy Name, we have a skillful and dedicated team of clinicians and employees," said Michael Maron, president/CEO of Holy Name.  "It is because of their hard work that our patients and their families receive quality healthcare that is among the best in the nation."