Houston Northwest Medical Center Recognized in the Top 15% of the Nation for Maternity Care Services from HealthGrades
Posted on: Tuesday, 30 June 2009, 07:00 CDT
The Sixth Annual HealthGrades Women's Health in American Hospitals study found that best-performing hospitals had 52% fewer maternal complications among women who had vaginal births at their facility compared to poor-performing hospitals. In addition, among women who had either C-sections or Patient-choice C-sections at these top performing hospitals, they experienced 76% and 84% fewer complications respectively.
"To be ranked among the top 15 percent in the nation for maternity care is a great honor and is a tribute to our physicians and staff who deliver quality care to our patients year after year," said
Study findings include the following:
- If all hospitals, among the 19 states studied, performed at the level of the best-performing hospitals from 2005 through 2007, 182,129 women may have avoided developing one or more in-hospital major obstetrics complications.
- Best-performing hospitals had a 56% lower weight-stratified neonatal mortality compared to poor-performing hospitals.
- C-section rates average approximately 32% among the 19 states studied.
- Quality inconsistencies are seen when comparing states; those with the lowest complication rates have almost half the complications compared with states that had the highest complication rates.
"For many women, having a baby is their first experience with hospitalization, and as this study shows, it really matters which hospital is chosen," said Dr.
HealthGrades analyzed approximately 13 million hospital delivery and neonate records from 2005 through 2007 in more than 1,500 hospitals in 19 all-payer states for this study and identified 218 hospitals as being five-star rated in maternity care.
The full HealthGrades study can be found at www.healthgrades.com.
For more information about Houston Northwest Medical Center, call 281-580-0000 or visit www.hnmc.com.
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