St. Mary’s Health Care System Named of America’s 100 Best Hospitals

 

The distinction makes St. Mary’s one of the top 2 percent of more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide for consistent, year-over-year superior clinical performance as measured by Healthgrades, the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals.

In addition to receiving the 2016 America’s 100 Best Hospitals AwardTM, St. Mary’s also has received the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence AwardTM and Outstanding Patient Experience AwardTM for five years in a row (2011-15), and Healthgrades Distinguished Hospital Award-Clinical ExcellenceTM for three years in a row (2013-16). St. Mary’s is the only hospital in Georgia to receive the 2016 America’s 100 Best Hospitals AwardTM, along with the Healthgrades 2015 Patient Safety Excellence AwardTM and the 2015 Outstanding Patient Experience AwardTM.
safety and efficiency, and in numerous Lean Six Sigma projects to improve effectiveness.

According to Healthgrades, the 100 recipients of the America’s 100 Best Hospitals Award™ stand out among the rest for overall clinical excellence across a broad spectrum of care. During the 2016 study period (2012-2014), these hospitals showed superior performance in clinical outcomes for patients in the Medicare population across at least 21 of 32 of the most common inpatient conditions and procedures — as measured by objective performance data related to risk-adjusted mortality and in-hospital complications.

To learn more about how Healthgrades determines the recipients of America’s 100 Best Hospitals Award™, please visit www.healthgrades.com/quality.