HealthGrades Overall Clinical Excellence
Mills-Peninsula Ranks Among Top 5%
Mills-Peninsula has been ranked in the top 5 percent of hospitals in the United States for overall clinical excellence. The ranking is by HealthGrades, the nation’s leading health care ratings company. Only 269 hospitals of the country’s 5,000 hospitals qualified for this distinction in 2008. HealthGrades analyzed 40 million Medicare patient records from the nation’s 5,000 hospitals. It found that patients treated at these top hospitals were significantly more likely to have good results.
Mills-Peninsula Health Services is one of only 269 hospitals in the U.S. to receive HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital for Clinical Excellence Award™. This distinction is based on an independent study released in January 2008 by HealthGrades, the leading health care ratings company.
The study of quality at the nation’s 4,971 hospitals places Mills-Peninsula Health Services in the top 5 percent for overall clinical quality.
According to the HealthGrades study, Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence had mortality rates that were, on average, 27 percent lower than other hospitals, and major complication rates that were 5 percent lower.
Each year, HealthGrades conducts the most comprehensive studies of hospital quality in America, producing ratings for every non-federal hospital in 27 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 27 ratings are aggregated into a comprehensive score.
The study also shows that Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence are improving 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%.
“Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence like Mills-Peninsula Health Services have proven that it is possible to consistently delivery top-notch medical care and they should be recognized for their outstanding achievement,” said Samantha Collier, MD, HealthGrades' chief medical officer.
For its study, HealthGrades analyzed almost 41 million Medicare hospitalization records that cover the latest three-year period, from 2004 to 2006. Because the hospitalization records come from the federal government, no hospital can opt in or out of HealthGrades' rating process. The analysis is risk-adjusted to account for differences in patient populations between hospitals.
HealthGrades found that Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence outperformed all other hospitals across the procedures and diagnoses studied. HealthGrades estimates that 171,424 lives could have been saved and 9,671 post-operative complications could have been avoided over the three years studied if all Medicare patients were treated at Distinguished Hospitals for Clinical Excellence.