44 Hospitals In PA Recognized For Patient Safety, Experience

A total of 44 hospitals in Pennsylvania were recognized by Healthgrades as excelling in at least one of two award categories. The 2019 awards recognized hospitals for patient safety and patient experience.

It comes just days after Leapfrog issued their biannual rankings of hospital safety.

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In a press release, Healthgrades said the awards “recognize the hospitals around the country that make patient safety a top priority and provide an outstanding patient experience.” Overall, 460 hospitals in the United States achieved the Healthgrades “Patient Safety Excellence Award” and 434 hospitals achieved the “Outstanding Patient Experience Award.”

In Pennsylvania, 27 hospitals achieved the patient safety award and 17 hospitals achieved the patient experience award. A total of 10 received both.

Below are the Pennsylvania hospitals that achieved the “Patient Safety Excellence Award”:

• Altoona Regional Health System, Altoona, PA
• Butler Memorial Hospital, Butler, PA
• Chester County Hospital, West Chester, PA
• Coordinated Health - Allentown, Allentown, PA
• Coordinated Health - Bethlehem, Bethlehem, PA
• Doylestown Hospital, Doylestown, PA
• Excela Health Latrobe Hospital, Latrobe, PA
• Jefferson Regional Medical Center, Jefferson Hills, PA
• Lower Bucks Hospital, Bristol, PA
• Meadville Medical Center, Meadville, PA
• Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, Darby, PA
• Mercy Philadelphia Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
• Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, PA
• Oss Orthopaedic Hospital, York, PA
• Paoli Hospital, Paoli, PA
• Penn Highlands Elk, Saint Marys, PA
• Physician's Care Surgical Hospital, Royersford, PA
• Rothman Orthopaedic Specialty Hospital, Bensalem, PA
• Roxborough Memorial Hospital, Philadelphia, PA
• Saint Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
• Saint Luke's Hospital - Anderson, Easton, PA
• Saint Luke's Miners Memorial Hospital, Coaldale, PA
• Saint Luke's Quakertown Hospital, Quakertown, PA
• Suburban Community Hospital, Norristown, PA
• Surgical Institute of Reading, Wyomissing, PA
• UPMC Horizon - Greenville, Greenville, PA
• Upmc Northwest, Seneca, PA

Below are the Pennsylvania hospitals that achieved the “Patient Safety Excellence Award”:

• Abington-Lansdale Hospital—Jefferson Health, Lansdale, PA
• Advanced Surgical Hospital, Washington, PA
• Bryn Mawr Hospital, Bryn Mawr, PA
• Chester County Hospital, West Chester, PA
• Doylestown Hospital, Doylestown, PA
• Excela Health Latrobe Hospital, Latrobe, PA
• Grand View Hospital, Sellersville, PA
• Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Monongahela Valley Hospital, Monongahela, PA
• Mount Nittany Medical Center, State College, PA
• Oss Orthopaedic Hospital, York, PA
• Paoli Hospital, Paoli, PA
• Physician's Care Surgical Hospital, Royersford, PA
• Rothman Orthopaedic Specialty Hospital, Bensalem, PA
• Saint Clair Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
• Saint Luke's Hospital - Anderson, Easton, PA
• Surgical Institute of Reading, Wyomissing, PA

Healthgrades says the hospitals that achieved the patient safety award are among the top 10 percent of all short-term acute hospitals that report patient safety data. By Healthgrades’ estimate, nearly 128,000 patient safety incidents could have been avoided if all hospitals performed similarly to the ones recognized for safety.

You can read more about the awards and the methodology behind them here