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TOP RANKING Saint Agnes Ranked Among Top Hospitals for Women's Health For the second year in a row, Saint Agnes Medical Center has been ranked in the top five percent of hospitals nationwide for clinical excellence in women’s health services, based on a study issued by HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent source for healthcare quality information.
In the HealthGrades Third Annual Report on Women’s Health Outcomes in U.S. Hospitals, Saint Agnes was recognized as a recipient of the 2006/2007 HealthGrades Women’s Health Excellence Award™ and received a five-star rating for women’s health services, which includes cardiac and stroke outcomes for women as well as maternity care. The hospital is the only 2006/2007 Women’s Health Excellence Award recipient in the Central Valley.
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For its 2006/2007 ratings, HealthGrades independently analyzed the quality of maternity care, as well as the cardiac and stroke outcomes for women, at hospitals in the 17 states that publish outcomes data, objectively assessing their clinical performance and quality.
HealthGrades applied the following rating system to all hospitals included in the analysis: - Five stars indicate a hospital performed better than expected, within the top 15 percent of all hospitals within the 17 states studied;
- Three stars indicate a hospital performed as expected, in the middle 70 percent of all hospitals within the 17 states studied; and
- One star indicates a hospital performed poorly, in the bottom 15 percent of all hospitals within the 17 states studied.
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The 2006/2007 HealthGrades ratings for maternity care are based on a programmatic evaluation including complication rates for c-sections and vaginal deliveries, delivery volume, and neonatal mortality. |
Women’s Health ratings combine a hospital’s maternity care rating with clinical performance in the treatment of stroke and cardiac services for women, including heart surgery, heart attack, heart failure, and cardiac interventions. The complete methodology can be found in the study posted on HealthGrades’ Web site.
“Each year, HealthGrades assesses hospital quality and publishes every hospital’s ratings online,” says Samantha Collier, HealthGrades’ vice president of medical affairs. “HealthGrades’ studies consistently show a vast gap in quality between five-star hospitals and the rest. Women in the Fresno area should be aware of the information available regarding healthcare quality and the outstanding recognition received by Saint Agnes Medical Center for women’s health.”
The complete maternity care and women’s health services ratings are published, free of charge, on the HealthGrades Web site, www.healthgrades.com.
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