To bestow awards to the top 5% and 10% hospitals in the U.S., Healthgrades used Medicare Provider Analysis and Review data to evaluate outcomes at about 4,500 hospitals for 31 common procedures and conditions.
If all hospitals performed as well as the awardees, up to 215,667 lives could have been saved and 149,521 complications avoided between 2020 and 2022, Healthgrades said in an Oct. 24 news release.
The specialty categories are:
1. Cardiac care
2. Cardiac surgery
3. Cardiology
4. Coronary intervention
5. Critical care
6. Gastrointestinal care
7. Gastrointestinal surgery
8. Joint replacement
9. Neuroscience
10. Neurosurgery
11. Orthopedic surgery
12. Prostate surgery
13. Pulmonary care
14. Spine surgery
15. Stroke care
16. Surgical care
17. Vascular surgery
Access the list of winners here.
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