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2006 Mortality Rates, Congestive Heart Failure

Chris Urban — Sat, 17 May 2008 01:34:23 +0000

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

2006 Infection Rates Ranking

Chris Urban — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:23:21 +0000

In an objective attempt to qualify which hospitals are ‘better’ or ‘worse’ in the Philadelphia area, I’ve been poring over some interesting data provided by the Pennsylvania Healthcare Cost Containment Council (www.phc4.org). From this organization, we can see total cases reported for infections among patients.

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

2006 Infection Rates Ranking

Chris Urban — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:17:17 +0000

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.

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2006 Mortality Rates, Congestive Heart Failure

Peer Group 1, Mortality Rates for Congestive Heart Failure

2006 Infection Rates Ranking

Peer Group 2, Lowest Infection Rates

2006 Infection Rates Ranking

Peer Group 1, Lowest Infection Rates