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our extraordinary clinicians and staff to providing compassionate, high-quality care across our health system to those we serve,” said Janice E. Nevin, M.D., MPH, Christiana Care president and CEO. “We are pleased to be recognized by this respected organization for our efforts to help our patients and our community achieve optimal health with the best in innovative, value-driven care.”
CareChex is a medical quality rating system that incorporates a detailed evaluation of clinical outcomes, patient safety indicators and risk-adjusted measures of mortality, complications and all-site readmissions, among other measures, to grade hospitals.
According to CareChex, medical excellence is an overall measure of quality for the hospital or health system and encompasses performance across risk- adjusted mortality rates, risk-adjusted complication rates, U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) inpatient quality indicators, AHRQ patient safety indicators, core measures and Hospital Consumer Assessment
of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) patient satisfaction scores.
Patient Safety is based on patient safety performance derived from the AHRQ’s patient safety indicators, according to CareChex.
Christiana Care also was ranked as the No. 1 hospital in the region in medical excellence for major orthopaedic surgery, neurological care and stroke care. Delaware is considered part of the South Region, which includes 13 Southern states and the District of Columbia.
Christiana Care ranked as the
No. 1 hospital in medical excellence in
the Philadelphia market — the region
that encompasses Philadelphia, Reading, Pa. and Camden, N.J. — in eight areas: overall hospital care, overall surgical
care, general surgery, major orthopaedic surgery, spinal fusion, spinal surgery, neurological care and stroke care. | CONTINUED
“Our exceptional employees have made these achievements possible because of our dedication to place the patient and their family at the center of all that we do.” Sharon L. Anderson, MS, BSN, RN, FACHE
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