ROCKFORD — Rockford Memorial Hospital has received a 2010 HealthGrades Prostatectomy Excellence Award, recognizing it as five-star rated and ranked among the top 10 percent of all U.S. hospitals for prostatectomy services, according to a national quality study released by the organization.
A prostatectomy is the surgical removal of all or part of the prostate gland.
The HealthGrades study, the largest annual report of its kind, analyzed patient outcomes in nearly 40 million Medicare hospitalization records from 5,000 hospitals over 2006, 2007 and 2008.
Among the findings related to in-hospital complications in this year’s study are:
* Across all procedures in which complications were studied, there was a 79.69 percent lower chance of experiencing one or more in-hospital complications in a five-star rated hospital compared with a one-star rated hospital.
* Across all procedures studied, there was a 61.22 percent lower chance of experiencing one or more in-hospital complications in a five-star rated hospital compared to the U.S. hospital average.
The 2010 HealthGrades hospital ratings are posted at healthgrades.com.
