Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center Named as a Top Hospital

Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center Named ‘Top Hospital’ by Leapfrog Group

The annual “Top Hospital” list is an exclusive group of U.S. medical centers. While more than 1,300 urban hospitals completed the Leapfrog survey and were considered for the recognition, only 62 hospitals across the country (4.7 percent) were named “Top Hospitals. Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center was named as one of these Top Hospitals. This honor recognizes a hospital’s performance on national standards of safety, quality, and efficiency.

“Kaiser Permanente’s outstanding performance in The Leapfrog Group’s Top Hospital ratings reflects the successful outcomes that come from providing care within an integrated, coordinated health care model,” said Patrick Courneya, MD, executive vice president and chief medical officer for Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. “Our more than 10 million members are able to not only achieve the best health outcomes, but also get back to those things they love doing most, like attending a daughter’s wedding, all because of the dedicated focus on high quality care provided by our Kaiser Permanente physicians, nurses and care teams.”

In order to be on the list, a “Top Hospital” must have fulfilled stringent performance standards for high-risk procedures (such as heart surgery). To be named a “Top Hospital,” a medical center must have also attained outstanding success in areas such as instituting stringent safety practices, and reducing infection rates and mortality rates for common procedures. Hospitals must also fully meet Leapfrog’s standards for implementing computer physician order entry systems.

“Kaiser Permanente is consistently receiving the highest marks for quality and safety because our care teams are committed to doing what’s best for the member, keeping them safe and healthy,” said Scott S. Young, MD, associate executive director of quality for Kaiser Permanente. “Having experts available from every specialty area working in collaboration with their care teams, and utilizing the most advanced electronic medical record allows us to provide patients rapid, cutting-edge diagnosis and treatment.”

About Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center:
The Los Angeles Medical Center (LAMC) is Kaiser Permanente’s tertiary center of excellence in Southern California. LAMC offers a wide range of specialty care services, featuring 40 Centers of Excellence, including complex neurosurgery, pediatrics, comprehensive cancer care, and one of the largest cardiac surgery programs in the western United States. LAMC is also an academic medical institution where highly trained doctors mentor and teach new generations of resident physicians and caregivers. LAMC currently hosts approximately 300 active medical research projects across a range of disciplines. More than 750,000 patients visit LAMC a year. For more information, visit www.kp.org/losangeles.