DENVER, Co. — Healthgrades, the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals, announced the recipients of the 2016 Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award, and Decatur County Memorial Hospital was on the list.
Patient Safety Excellence Award recipients were determined by evaluating the occurrence of observed incidents and expected performance for 14 Patient Safety Indicators as defined by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
2016 Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award
In 2016, there were 466 hospitals across the nation that achieved the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™. The distinction places this elite group of hospitals within the top 10% of all hospitals evaluated for their excellent performance in safeguarding patients from serious, potentially preventable complications during their hospital stays.
On average, 270,457 patient safety events could have been avoided if all hospitals, as a group from 2012 to 2014, performed similarly to hospitals performing better than expected on each of 13 patient safety indicators evaluated by Healthgrades, as well as zero instances of foreign object left during procedure.
