Still topping the charts!
Spokane, WA — Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital, a member of Providence Health & Services, has once again achieved status as a Top 100 Cardiovascular Hospital in the nation. Just five hospitals in Northwest (Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington) received the award, which is based on quality standards, patient outcomes and surgical techniques; Sacred Heart is the only hospital in Spokane to receive this honor.
The annual study, performed by Thomson Healthcare (formerly Solucient), identifies the nation’s top providers of cardiovascular service, using the two most recent years of data. The data comes from public sources—the Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data set, the Medicare Cost Report, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare data set. Each hospital is assigned to one of three peer groups for comparison, according to its teaching and residency program status.
Judged against peer organizations, Top 100 Cardiovascular Hospitals:
- have better clinical outcomes in terms of mortality and complications;
- have lower costs;
- maintain shorter lengths of stay; and
- are technologically and clinically advanced.
The other four Northwest hospitals named in the study included two other Providence Health & Services facilities—St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula and Providence Everett Medical Center—along with St. Alphonsus in Boise and the Billings (MT) Clinic.
The study focused on hospitals that treat the full spectrum of cardiology patients; from those who do not require invasive procedures to those needing an angioplasty or an open-heart surgery. More information is available at www.100tophospitals.com.
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for men and women, and accounts for nearly 300,000 Medicare hospitalizations each year. Approximately 15 percent of what patients spend on hospital care is spent on cardiology-related services.
About Sacred Heart
Sacred Heart Medical Center is the regional referral center for Eastern Washington, Western Montana and North Idaho that offers comprehensive, not-for-profit, mission-based health care. Areas of cardiac specialization—available only at Sacred Heart—include robotics, mechanical hearts and heart transplants. Providence Health & Services includes 27 hospitals; more than 35 non-acute facilities; and 45,000 employees in Alaska, Montana, Washington, Oregon and California. The system headquarters are in Seattle, Washington.
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