St. Rose Receives Eight Five Star Healthgrades Ratings

Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican today announced that it has received five stars for quality care in eight service areas from Healthgrades, the leading online resource helping consumers make informed decisions to find the right doctor, right hospital, and right care.

These service areas include:

Rose de Lima Campus

• Hip Fracture Treatment (two years in a row)
• Esophageal/Stomach Surgeries 
• Colorectal Surgeries (four years in a row)
• Respiratory Failure (three years in a row)

Siena Campus

• Hip Fracture Treatment (three years in a row)
• C-Section Delivery 

San Martin Campus

• Pacemaker Procedures (two years in a row)
• Pneumonia (six years in a row)

This achievement is part of new findings and data released today on Healthgrades.com and in the Healthgrades 2016 Report to the Nation. Every year, Healthgrades evaluates hospital performance at nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide for 33 of the most common inpatient procedures and conditions. 

The new report demonstrates how clinical performance continues to differ dramatically between hospitals both nationally and regionally. This variation in care has a significant impact on health outcomes. For example, from 2012 through 2014, if all hospitals as a group, performed similarly to hospitals receiving 5 stars as a group, on average 222,392 lives could potentially have been saved and 166,086 complications could potentially have been avoided.* A 5-star rating indicates that St. Rose’s clinical outcomes are statistically significantly better than expected when treating the condition or performing the procedure being evaluated.

“Receiving these ratings from Healthgrades means a great deal to St. Rose,” said Dr. Robert Pretzlaff, chief medical officer for Dignity Health-St. Rose Dominican. “The ratings recognize what we continue to strive for – superior performance and outcomes for our patients.” 

“The Healthgrades 2016 Report to the Nation reveals striking disparities in quality at the local level, and underscores why it is vital for consumers to understand outcomes performance at alternative hospitals for specific conditions and procedures,” said Evan Marks, Chief Strategy Officer for Healthgrades. “Hospitals with superior outcomes for certain aspects of care may not perform as well in other areas. Moreover, a major metropolitan area may have many hospitals, but only a few may provide better-than-expected outcomes for the specific care a patient needs. Those hospitals that have achieved the Healthgrades distinction have demonstrated a commitment to exceptional quality." 

For its analysis, Healthgrades evaluated approximately 40 million Medicare inpatient records for nearly 4,500 short-term acute care hospitals nationwide and assessed hospital performance relative to each of 33 common conditions and procedures. Healthgrades recognizes a hospital’s quality achievements for cohort-specific performance, specialty area performance, and overall clinical quality. Individual procedure or condition cohorts are designated as 5 star (statistically significantly better than expected), 3 star (not statistically different from expected), and 1 star (statistically significantly worse than expected) categories. Read the complete Healthgrades 2016 Report to the Nation with detailed cohort-specific outcomes data, hospital-specific quality achievements, and detailed study methodology.