INDIANAPOLIS – Franciscan St. Francis Health - Indianapolis has been
named among the top 5 percent of nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide for its
clinical performance as measured by Healthgrades, a leading provider of
comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.
By achieving this high level of performance, Franciscan St. Francis Health-Indianapolis has received Healthgrades’
prestigious Distinguished
Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™.
The 262 hospitals named this
year achieved their status by providing overall clinical excellence across a
broad range of clinical procedures and conditions measured by Healthgrades for
both risk-adjusted mortality and complication rates during and after a hospital
stay. Nationally, if all hospitals performed at this level from 2009 through
2011 a total of 164,414
deaths could have potentially been prevented.
“We are proud and gratified by this recognition,
particularly because it accurately reflects our very high level of performance
across a number of departments and specialties. This is a testament of our
extremely talented medical staff and other exceptional nurses and clinicians,
who always strive to provide the best, highest quality care for all patients,”
said Robert J. Brody, president and chief executive officer for Franciscan St.
Francis Health.
To be considered for Healthgrades’ Distinguished Hospital Award
for Clinical Excellence, a hospital had to have been evaluated in a minimum of
19 of the 27 procedures and condition cohorts measured, drawn from Medicare
inpatient records data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) database.
The previously released American Hospital Quality Outcomes 2013: Healthgrades
Report to the Nation highlighted that significant variation in
outcomes could exist within a region when looking at risk adjusted mortality
and complication rates.
For
example, out of the eight hospitals in Indianapolis evaluated
for treatment of sepsis, there was a wide variation in hospital performance
as measured by risk adjusted mortality rates (from 8.9 percent on the low end
to 18.3 percent on the high
end). Franciscan St. Francis is among the hospitals
with the lowest risk-adjusted mortality rates providing patients in the
city of Indianapolis with some of the best possible quality care.
“Our
analysis, unlike other hospital quality ratings or grades, is based solely on
clinical outcomes data. We do not include any opinion surveys of doctors or
patients, or any other subjective measures because they can lack in
objectivity,” said Evan Marks, executive vice president of Informatics and Strategy. “Healthgrades is also the only site that provides the ability to link
the selection of a doctor to the hospital where they practice, giving the
consumer the power to differentiate the likelihood of a better health outcome
on the basis of the hospitals objective quality measures, such as mortality,
complications, safety and patient satisfaction ”
About Franciscan St. Francis Health
With hospitals in
Indianapolis, Mooresville and Carmel, Franciscan St. Francis Health is a member
of the Franciscan Alliance, one of the largest Catholic health care systems in
the Midwest, with 13 hospitals throughout Indiana and Illinois. The Franciscan
Alliance serves a geographic area with a population of 3.7 million people,
provides care for more than 2.9 million outpatient visits and completes more
than 100,000 inpatient discharges every year. To learn more about Franciscan
Alliance go to www.franciscanalliance.org.
About Healthgrades
Healthgrades,
headquartered in Denver, Colorado, is a leading provider of comprehensive
information about physicians and hospitals. More than 200 million consumers use
the Healthgrades websites to select and communicate with physicians and
hospitals that best meet their treatment needs. Consumers are
empowered through use of the Healthgrades proprietary information
about clinical outcomes, satisfaction, safety, and health conditions to make
more informed healthcare decisions and take action. For more information
please visit www.healthgrades.com and www.bettermedicine.com
