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Good Sam in Top 100 in Heart Care

Posted on: Friday, 4 November 2005, 21:00 CST

By Kevin Lamb klamb@DaytonDailyNews.com

DAYTON ---- Good Samaritan Hospital is ranked among the country's 100 best hospitals in heart care, meeting Solucient's cardiovascular benchmarks for the third time in four years.

If all U.S. hospitals matched Solucient's 100 Top Hospitals' performance, the company said an additional 10,000 cardiovascular patients could survive each year. Those hospitals' costs for heart care also averaged nearly 15 percent below their counterparts.

Solucient, which sells health care information and analysis, used 2003 and 2004 Medicare data to evaluate how well each hospital's patients recover from heart attacks, congestive heart disease, heart bypass surgery and arteryclearing angioplasty procedures.

It considered the hospital's patient volume, rates of survival and complication-free recovery, and average cost and length of stay, statistically adjusted for the severity of their conditions.

Patients at the top 100 awarded hospitals were 23 percent less likely than others to have infections after surgery and 20 percent less likely to hemorrhage after surgery or angioplasty.

The state had 10 of the top 100 hospitals. Good Samaritan was the only one in the Dayton area. More information is at 100tophospitals.com.

Source: Dayton Daily News

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