Alvarado Hospital and Paradise Valley Hospital, members of Prime Healthcare, have been recognized by Healthgrades as 2022 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ recipients.
This distinction places Alvarado Hospital and Paradise Valley Hospital among the top five and 10 percent, respectively, of all short-term acute care hospitals as evaluated by Healthgrades, a marketplace connecting patients and providers.
Alvarado Hospital, a member of Prime Healthcare, is a 306-bed full-service, acute care hospital adjacent to San Diego State University.
Ranked in the top 5% nationally for patient safety, the hospital has also been ranked among America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Orthopedic Surgery™, Spine Surgery™ and Critical Care™.
Alvarado Hospital offers more than 25 programs and services, including the Advanced Spine & Joint Institute, cardiac services, surgical weight loss, San Diego Rehabilitation Institute outpatient rehabilitation, sexual medicine, geriatric-psychiatric care, vascular services, an emergency department that is specially accredited for geriatric care.
Prime Healthcare has more patient safety excellence awards for seven years in a row than any other health system (2016-2022), according to Healthgrades.
“Through our 2022 Patient Safety Excellence Awards, we seek to recognize hospitals that excel in providing top-quality care for their patients while preventing serious injuries during hospital stays,” said Brad Bowman, MD, chief medical officer and head of data science, Healthgrades. “We are proud to name Paradise Valley and Alvarado Hospitals as 2022 Patient Safety Excellence Award recipients and look forward to their continued efforts to make patient safety a priority.”
During the study period (2018 through 2020), 170,231 potentially preventable patient safety events occurred among Medicare patients in U.S. hospitals.* Healthgrades found that just four patient safety indicators accounted for 74% of all patient safety events: hip fracture due to an in-hospital fall, collapsed lung resulting from a procedure/surgery, pressure or bed sores acquired in-hospital, and catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in-hospital. Healthgrades also found that patients treated in hospitals receiving the Healthgrades 2022 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ were, on average:
● 55.8% less likely to experience an in-hospital fall resulting in hip fracture, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals*
● 52.6% less likely to experience a collapsed lung resulting from a procedure or surgery in or around the chest, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals*
● 66.2% less likely to experience pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals*
● 65.8% less likely to experience catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in the hospital, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals*
Consumers can visit healthgrades.com for more information on how Healthgrades measures hospital quality and access the complete methodology here.
*Statistics are calculated from Healthgrades Patient Safety Ratings and Excellence Award™ methodology which is based primarily on AHRQ technical specifications (Version 2021.0.1) for MedPAR data years 2018 through 2020 and represent 3-year estimates for Medicare patients only.
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