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Southcoast Hospitals Top 5 Percent

By Southcoast Hospitals

Southcoast Hospitals has been ranked in the top 5 percent of hospitals in the U.S. in patient safety by HealthGrades, the country’s leading independent health care ratings organization.

Southcoast is one of just seven hospitals in Massachusetts and the only hospital on the South Coast to receive the prestigious HealthGrades Patient Safety Excellence Award for 2010. “Receiving this prestigious award proves that we are doing many of the things necessary to ensure that our patients receive safe, high quality care,” said Keith A. Hovan, President & CEO of Southcoast Hospitals Group.

Patients at hospitals in the top 5 percent experienced 43 percent fewer patient safety incidents, on average, compared to poorly performing hospitals, according to HealthGrades. HealthGrades used patient safety indicators from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) to identify the patient safety incidence rates for every non-federal hospital in the country using Medicare data gathered between 2006 and 2008. In addition to identifying the rates of patient safety events, HealthGrades created a composite score to identify the best-performing hospitals in the U.S. for that time period.

Southcoast Hospitals

Southcoast Health System is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and East Bay, Rhode Island. It includes the three hospitals that make up Southcoast Hospitals Group — Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River, St. Luke's Hospital in New Bedford and Tobey Hospital in Wareham.

Southcoast provides advanced clinical services, such as open heart surgery, angioplasty and heart rhythm services, comprehensive cancer care, neurosurgery, weight loss surgery, orthopedic surgery, advanced imaging services and is the only provider of maternity services in the region.

Southcoast is a not-for-profit charitable organization that depends on the support of the community to provide services.

www.southcoast.org

Southcoast Center for Wound Care & Hyperbaric Medicine
Charlton Memorial Hospital
363 Highland Avenue
Fall River, MA

For more information call (508) 679-7447 or

To schedule an appointment call (800) 276-0103

Visit www.southcoast.org/woundcare

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