Seven Rivers Regional Among Top 5% in Nation for Patient Safety

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March 31, 2010 News Releases
In 2010, Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center was identified as a recipient of the HealthGrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™, indicating that its patient safety ratings are in the top 5% of U.S. hospitals, in a new study released today by HealthGrades, the leading independent health care ratings organization. Seven Rivers Regional is one of only 238 hospitals in the country to receive this designation and one of only 15 to receive it in Florida.

Medicare patients at hospitals receiving the HealthGrades Patient Safety Excellence Award were, on average, 43% less likely to experience a patient safety event.

"Patient safety has and is at the forefront of our efforts in caring for our community,” said Joyce Brancato, chief executive officer, Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center. “Ranking among the top hospitals in Florida as well as in the nation with regards to patient safety serves as a confirmation that our team is truly living Seven Rivers Regional’s mission to provide excellence in health care. The dedication and commitment of our associates and affiliated physicians has made this recognition possible.”

“On behalf of HealthGrades, I’d like to congratulate Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center for a track record of patient safety that is among the best in the nation,” said Rick May, MD, a vice president at HealthGrades and co-author of the study. “Hospitals like Seven Rivers Regional are setting benchmarks of superior performance that we would like to see other hospitals emulate.

”The seventh annual HealthGrades Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study analyzed nearly 40 million hospitalization records from approximately 5,000 hospitals nationwide that participate in the Medicare program. Participation in the HealthGrades study is not voluntary, and hospitals cannot choose to opt out of the analysis.

If all hospitals performed at the level of Patient Safety Excellence Award™ hospitals like Seven Rivers Regional, approximately 218,572 patient safety events and 22,590 Medicare deaths could have been avoided while saving the U.S. approximately $2.1 billion in excess costs from 2006 through 2008.

The Study applies methodology developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to identify the incidence rates of 15 patient safety indicators among Medicare patients at virtually all of the nation's nearly 5,000 nonfederal hospitals. Additionally, HealthGrades applied its methodology using 12 patient safety indicators to identify the best-performing hospitals, or Patient Safety Excellence Award™ Hospitals, which represent the top 5% of all U.S. hospitals. HealthGrades developed this award to give patients more information about choosing a hospital.

In the HealthGrades analysis, the following are the patient safety indicators studied:
•    Complications of anesthesia
•    Death in low mortality Diagnostic Related Groupings (DRGs)
•    Decubitus ulcer (bed sores)
•    Death among surgical inpatients with serious treatable complications
•    Iatrogenic pneumothorax (collapsed lung)
•    Selected infections due to medical care
•    Post-operative hip fracture
•    Post-operative hemorrhage or hematoma
•    Post-operative physiologic and metabolic derangements
•    Post-operative respiratory failure
•    Post-operative pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis
•    Post-operative sepsis
•    Post-operative abdominal wound dehiscence
•    Accidental puncture or laceration
•    Transfusion reaction

About Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center
Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center, a 128-bed general, medical/surgical acute care facility serving Citrus, Levy and South Marion Counties, opened its doors in 1978. Seven Rivers Regional is fully accredited by The Joint Commission and has earned the Gold Seal of Approval™ as a Certified Primary Stroke Center. The medical center is a recipient of the HealthGrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™ (2010) ranking it among the top 5% in the nation for patient safety, is recognized with a Gold Sustained Performance Award from the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association (AHA/ASA) for its success with Get With The Guidelines (GWTG) and received a Performance Improvement Award from Florida Medical Quality Assurance, Inc. In addition, Seven Rivers Regional has been honored as one of the nation’s Top 100 Hospitals (1999, 2001) and Top 100 Hospital for Stroke (2000). Seven Rivers Regional can be found on the World Wide Web at www.srrmc.com.
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