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Springs hospital on top 50 list

Rocky Mountain News

Published February 25, 2008 at 8:38 a.m.
Updated February 25, 2008 at 8:56 a.m.

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HealthGrades, the Golden-based health care ratings organization, today identified America’s 50 Best Hospitals, an elite class of top-performing facilities.

The designation represents the health care industry’s only quality ranking based solely on objective clinical outcomes among U.S. hospitals.

Centura Health’s Penrose St. Francis Health Services in Colorado Springs is the only Colorado hospital on the list, which contains nationally known facilities such as Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles, Mayo Clinic in Phoenix and the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland.

To identify the 2008 designees, HealthGrades researchers analyzed about 100 million hospitalization records from nearly 5,000 hospitals from 1999 to 2006. To be listed, facilities must have demonstrated clinical outcomes among the top 5 percent in the nation, not only in one medical specialty but also aggregated across 27 different procedures and diagnoses, and must have maintained this superior level of care during all years studied. These hospitals were found to have an average 27 percent lower mortality rate, on average, than all other U.S. hospitals.

The full list can be found at www.healthgrades.com.

Correction: The Mayo Clinic in Phoenix is on the list of America's 50 Best Hospitals, not the hospital in Minnesota.