Recognized for outstanding performance by HealthGrades®, the leading independent healthcare ratings company
 Providence Everett Medical Center announced that it is among the nation’s top five percent of hospitals, according to a study of mortality and complication rates by HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent healthcare ratings company.
Providence Everett Medical Center’s outstanding quality performance has earned the hospital HealthGrades’ 2007 Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical ExcellenceTM. It is one of only four hospitals in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho to receive this distinction for 2007. According to the HealthGrades study, issued today, patients admitted to a hospital receiving this award are, on average, 28 percent less likely to die and five percent less likely to suffer from a major complication. The study assessed the performance of the nation’s 4,971 hospitals that are not affiliated with the federal government (U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals were not included in the study).
HealthGrades estimates that if all patients were treated at Distinguished Hospitals, 158,264 lives could have been saved and 12,410 post-operative complications could have been avoided during the three years studied.
“We are honored to receive the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award. It sets Providence Everett apart as a national leader – it is the “Pulitzer Prize” of healthcare excellence. This prestigious recognition is a testament to the superior clinical expertise of our physicians, nurses and technical staff. It is an exclamation point to the many awards we’ve received for clinical excellence over the past several years,” said Gail Larson, Chief Executive, Providence Everett Medical Center.
Providence Everett Medical Center performs well in several specialty areas in addition to achieving distinction for overall quality of care. According to HealthGrades, the hospital: is ranked among the top five percent of hospitals nationally for the treatment of stroke for the second year in a row; is ranked among the top ten percent of hospitals for critical care services, and is the best rated hospital for overall cardiac care in the Seattle and Northwestern Washington region.
Each year, HealthGrades independently analyzes the clinical quality performance of all non-federal hospitals across the country in 28 procedures and diagnoses. In the Distinguished Hospital Study, the company reviewed tens of millions of hospitalization records over the years 2003, 2004 and 2005. Hospitals that receive the HealthGrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence are those hospitals that rank in the top five percent when all 28 individual scores are aggregated into an overall score.
The 2007 HealthGrades ratings for all hospitals nationwide are available on the Web at www.Healthgrades.com.
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