Paradise Valley Hospital was recognized for being one of 49 hospitals nationally to have the lowest proportion of serious medical errors per hospital discharge, according to Becker’s Infection Control & Clinical Quality (April 12, 2016).
The national average rate for ratio of serious complications to discharges is 0.81; Paradise Valley Hospital’s rate was 0.49. Paradise Valley was one of only two San Diego hospitals to be recognized nationally.
Numbers were calculated using the Patient Safety Indicators 90 measure, a weighted average of the reliability- adjusted observed-to-expected ratios for several patient safety indicators. PSIs are a set of indicators used to provide information on hospital complications and adverse events following surgeries, procedures and childbirth used by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
The data were gathered from July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2014, the most recent data available.
Alvarado Hospital also made the list with a rate of 0.43; both Alvarado and Paradise Valley are part of Prime Healthcare Services. Four Prime hospitals made the list of 49.
Link to article: www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/49-hospitals-with-the-lowest-serious-complication-rates-041216.html.
