Alvarado Hospital, a member of Prime Healthcare, has been recognized by Healthgrades as a 2023 Patient Safety Excellence Award™ recipient.
Alvarado Hospital, a member of Prime Healthcare, is a 302-bed full-service, acute care hospital centrally located in San Diego adjacent to SDSU.
This distinction places Alvarado Hospital among the top 10% of all short-term acute care hospitals as evaluated by Healthgrades, a marketplace connecting patients and providers. This is the ninth consecutive year that Alvarado Hospital has won this award.
For the eighth year in a row, Prime Healthcare, one of the nation’s health systems, had more Patient Safety Excellence Award recipients than any other health system, according to Healthgrades.
“Through our 2023 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 Alvarado Hospital as a 2023 Patient Safety Excellence Award recipient and look forward to their continued efforts to make patient safety a top priority.”
If all hospitals, as a group, performed similarly to the 2023 Patient Safety Award recipients, on average, 95,880 patient safety events could have been avoided.*
“What attracted me most to the role of CEO at Alvarado was its culture of safety, and the year-after-year Top 10% in the Nation Safety Excellence Award from Healthgrades,” commented Kenneth McFarland. “Patient safety permeates every thought and action in our hospital. After nine consecutive years of Patient Safety Excellence awards, it’s my intention to help us continue this tradition.”
During the 2019-2021 study period, 164,592 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 the hospital, and catheter-related bloodstream infections acquired in-hospital. Healthgrades’ analysis also revealed that patients treated in hospitals receiving the
Healthgrades 2023 Patient Safety Excellence Award were, on average:
- 61.4% less likely to experience an in-hospital fall resulting in hip fracture, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals*
- 52.7% 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*
- 66.1% less likely to experience pressure sores or bed sores acquired in the hospital, than patients treated at non-recipient hospitals*
- 67.3% 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 2022.0.1) for MedPAR data years 2019 through 2021 and represent three-year estimates for Medicare patients only.
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