Quality: what it means to you
How do you choose a hospital? Do you simply go to the one your parents did, or maybe the hospital nearest home? Perhaps you rely on a doctor’s advice. Today, you have access to more information than ever before to help make that important choice. Yet it can be tough to find and sort through all that data, especially when you’re hurting or in a hurry.
Over the past decade, a host of organizations have created “report cards” to compare and rate hospitals using a variety of criteria. Sometimes the reports are provided at no cost, while other agencies charge hospitals to participate or publicize results.
Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital
among the nation’s top performers.
We believe strong quality-assurance reviews help us in our daily mission to fine-tune outstanding services already provided here. And they offer you an objective assessment of our work.
“Hospitals save lives by offering miracles when they can and hope to our friends and neighbors when fear paralyzes their ability to cope. They amaze us with technology that makes diagnosing problems easier and treating them faster. And they do it 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.”
—Washington State Hospital Association
Volume: it does matter!
A hospital where physicians and technicians frequently perform certain procedures develops a higher level of expertise and produces better outcomes for patients.Because Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children’s Hospital is a high-volume hospital, other local and regional facilities refer their most severe and complicated cases to us.
Sacred Heart’s reputation for quality reflects our long history in Spokane (founded in 1886), as well as our commitment to stay at the forefront of all medicine has to offer, with nationally recognized physicians and surgeons and modern facilities.
- Honors and Awards
Sacred Heart has been recognized as a leader in Quality, Technology and Community Service. - Service highlights
Rankings and achievements in Cardiovascular, Children's, Emergency Care, Safety and more. - Health care quality resources
- What people are saying about Sacred Heart