chrisurban.com » rates http://chrisurban.com Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:13:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 2006 Mortality Rates, Congestive Heart Failure http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/16/healthcare/2006-mortality-rates-congestive-heart-failure/ http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/16/healthcare/2006-mortality-rates-congestive-heart-failure/#comments Sat, 17 May 2008 01:34:23 +0000 Chris Urban http://chrisurban.com/2008/05/16/healthcare/2006-mortality-rates-congestive-heart-failure/ In our continuing series where we look at the rates of infection and mortality reported by Philadelphia area hospitals, here we filter out the hospitals with the lowest mortality rates for cases reported as Congestive Heart Failure. What is interesting to note is the low actual number of cases, consider the rates are reported as per 1,000 cases.

Peer Group 1, Mortality Rates for Congestive Heart Failure

Rank 

Hospital

Deaths

Rate per
1,000
1 Main Line Lankenau 7 1.06
2 Pennsylvania 4 1.25
3 Hahnemann University 9 1.62
4 Temple University 17 1.62
5 Frankford 15 1.66
6 Hospital University PA 13 2.02
7 Abington Memorial 19 2.22
8 St Luke’s/Bethlehem 20 2.36
9 Thomas Jefferson Univ 17 2.92
10 Reading 21 3.07

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I grouped hospitals by their peer group, isolated the largest hospitals – here are Peer Group 2 hospital rankings, for cases reported of infections per 1,000 patients, in 2006.

Peer Group 2, Lowest Infection Rates

Rank 

Hospital

Cases
Reported

Rate per
1,000
1 Penn Presbyterian 149 11.3
2 Jeanes 135 12.5
3 Sacred Heart/Allentown 79 13.6
4 Main Line Paoli 171 13.7
5 Chester County 216 15.4
6 Main Line Bryn Mawr 256 15.7
7 Easton 203 17.1
8 Doylestown 238 19.5
9 St Joseph/Reading 213 24.9
10 Brandywine 179 25.1

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I grouped hospitals by their peer group, isolated the largest hospitals – here are results from peer group 1. These are ranked by their reported rates of infection, per 1,000 patients.

Peer Group 1, Lowest Infection Rates

Rank 

Hospital

Cases
Reported

Rate per
1,000
1 Main Line Lankenau 218 11.1
2 Pennsylvania 321 14.6
3 St Mary 328 15.9
4 Albert Einstein 459 19
5 Abington Memorial 689 20.2
6 Thomas Jefferson Univ 683 21.4
7 Frankford 647 21.8
8 Lehigh Valley 802 23.3
9 Temple University 659 23.8
10 St Luke’s/Bethlehem 753 24.3

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