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Saint Barnabas Awards and Designations
Each year, HealthGrades conducts the most comprehensive studies of hospital quality in America, producing a rating for every non-federal hospital in 28 diagnoses and procedures. Hospitals that receive the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence are those hospitals that place among the top 5 percent nationally when all 28 ratings are aggregated into a comprehensive score. Only 266 hospitals nationwide are recognized. “This award truly speaks to the culture of quality at Saint Barnabas Medical Center,” said John F. Bonamo, M.D., M.S., Executive Director. “It is one thing to be recognized for excellence in a single service area but something all together different to achieve this level of recognition across all service areas of the hospital.” Saint Barnabas Medical Center was also recognized with the 2007 HealthGrades Excellence Awards™ in Cardiac, Stroke, Maternity and Women’s Health and the 2007 HealthGrades Bariatric Surgery Specialty Excellence Award™. In addition, Saint Barnabas is the only hospital in New Jersey, and one of only 20 in the country, to recently be named a dual recipient of the HealthGrades 2007/2008 Maternity Care Excellence Award™ and the HealthGrades 2007/2008 Women’s Health Excellence Award™. This is the second consecutive year that Saint Barnabas has achieved this distinction in both categories. “These recognitions demonstrate the exceptional level of quality across all hospital services. Patients and their families can be comforted in knowing that a hospital of the highest quality serves the community and the region with the best possible care,” said Samantha Collier, M.D., HealthGrades’ Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs and Chief Medical Officer. For its study, HealthGrades performed an analysis of almost 39 million Medicare hospitalization records that cover the latest three-year period, from 2003 to 2005. The analysis is risk-adjusted to account for differences in patient populations between hospitals. In the study, HealthGrades found that Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence outperformed all other hospitals across the procedures and diagnoses studied. HealthGrades estimates that if during the time period studied all patients had gone to a Distinguished Hospital, 158,264 lives could have been saved and 12,410 post-operative complications could have been avoided. “Every day at Saint Barnabas Medical Center we envision delivering care that is on the cutting edge,” said Dr. Bonamo. “It is only through teamwork and the dedication of our staff that this vision becomes a reality. It is because of these individuals that we are among the best in the nation.”
Saint Barnabas Medical Center HealthGrades 2007 Analysis 2007 Clinical Achievements
Bariatric Surgery
Cardiac Services
Critical Care
Gastrointestinal Services
Maternity Care
Orthopedic Services
Pulmonary Services
Stroke Care
Women’s Health Services
The 2007 HealthGrades ratings for all hospitals nationwide are available, free of charge, on the web at www.healthgrades.com [ top ] |
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A study of quality at the nation’s 4,971 hospitals named Saint Barnabas Medical Center as one of the top 5 percent in the nation and a recipient of the 2007 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™. The study conducted by HealthGrades, the leading healthcare ratings company, found that hospitals in the top 5 percent in the nation had mortality rates that were, on average, 28 percent lower than other hospitals, and major complication rates that were 5 percent lower.
