Cincinnati - The Christ Hospital announced today it has been ranked among the top five percent in the nation for overall cardiac services and ranked best in the region according to a comprehensive study released by HealthGrades, a national health care ratings company. The Christ Hospital also ranked in the top five percent nationally in cardiology and coronary interventions as part of its overall cardiac program. As a result, The Christ Hospital is the recipient of the 2007 HealthGrades Cardiac Specialty Excellence Award. The Christ Hospital is also five-star rated in Peripheral Vascular Bypass and ranked number one in the Cincinnati Area.
"The Christ Hospital is honored to receive such high rankings and attributes the rankings to the premier physicians and staff at the hospital," said Susan Croushore, executive director, senior vice president at The Christ Hospital. "When receiving treatment at The Christ Hospital, patients can rest assured that they are being cared for by the most experienced staff with the most sophisticated technology available."
As part of its ninth annual Hospital Quality in America Study, HealthGrades independently analyzed more than 5,000 hospitals in all 50 states and the District of Columbia for its 2007 ratings, objectively assessing their clinical outcomes and quality. The 40 million hospitalization records utilized in the assessment are publicly available and licensed from the federal government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The HealthGrades ratings take into account varying degrees of patient severity from hospital to hospital and measure whether patient outcomes for each of more than two dozen procedures and diagnoses are better than expected (5-Star), as expected (3-Star) or worse than expected (1-Star).
The 2007 HealthGrades ratings for all hospitals nationwide are available, free of charge, on HealthGrades' consumer Web site, located at www.healthgrades.com.
The Christ Hospital is part of the Health Alliance, an integrated health care delivery system that also includes The University Hospital, The St. Luke Hospitals, The Jewish Hospital, The Fort Hamilton Hospital, Drake Center, West Chester Medical Center and the physicians of Alliance Primary Care. To view other Health Alliance news releases, go to www.health-alliance.com/pressroom.