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HealthGrades, a leading health care ratings company, has once again given Doctors Medical Center’s Cardiology Services five stars for clinical outcomes of coronary interventional procedures:
· For the fourth year in a row, Doctors Medical Center received HealthGrades' top rating for its cardiac interventional procedures, including angioplasties and stents.
· For the fourth year in a row, clinical outcomes for cardiac interventional procedures have placed Doctors Medical Center among the top ten hospitals in California for these procedures.
· Receiving HealthGrades’ top rating means that DMC’s cardiac program ranks among the best in the country.
· The hospital continues to be the only hospital in the area to receive HealthGrades' five-star rating for these procedures.
“The fact that cardiac services at the hospital have once again received HealthGrades’ top rating means that residents of our community can receive local care from a five-star cardiac program without having to leave Modesto,” says Denny Litos, Chief Executive Officer of Doctors Medical Center. “We are pleased to be recognized four years in a row. Quality patient care will always be our top priority.”
The HealthGrades rating applies not only to treatment of cardiac emergencies, but to a variety of other procedures performed in the hospital’s cardiac catheterization lab for diagnosing, treating and preventing cardiovascular disease.
As part of its ninth annual Hospital Quality in America Study, HealthGrades independently analyzed more than 5,000 hospitals in all 50 states and the District of Columbia for its 2007 ratings, objectively assessing their clinical outcomes and quality.
The HealthGrades ratings take into account varying degrees of patient severity from hospital to hospital and measure whether patient outcomes for more than two dozen procedures and diagnoses are better than expected (five-star), as expected (three-star) or worse than expected (one-star).
"Consumers continue to ask for more and better information to help them in their health care decision making," said Samantha Collier, M.D., HealthGrades' vice president of medical affairs. "Our analysis provides an apples-to-apples comparison of hospital performance by procedure or diagnosis, and it is evident there is significant variance between individual hospitals. For Doctors Medical Center of Modesto to continue to rate among the nation's best for cardiac interventional procedures reflects the efforts of everybody in the organization, and should be very comforting to area residents."
The 2007 HealthGrades ratings for all hospitals nationwide are available, free of charge, on HealthGrades' consumer Web site, located at www.healthgrades.com.
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