Advisory Board March 12, 2024
Healthgrades on Tuesday announced the winners of the 2024 Patient Safety Excellence Award and the Outstanding Patient Experience Award, recognizing hospitals that “provide quality care while preventing serious safety events during hospital stays” and hospitals that deliver “best-in-class patient experience.”
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The Patient Safety Excellence Award
The Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award is based on an analysis of inpatient MedPAR data that measures a hospital’s clinical performance across 13 different patient safety indicators (PSIs), which each represent a serious, potentially preventable complication.
To be eligible for the award, hospitals are required to meet certain clinical quality thresholds, have no instances of a foreign object being left behind during a procedure, and...