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NATIONAL STUDY: COOKEVILLE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER NAMED AMERICA’S 100 BEST FOR CARDIAC AND ORTHOPEDIC CARE

The Healthgrades Study of Patient Outcomes in Nearly 4,500 Hospitals Finds

Cookeville Regional Among the Best Nationally

[Cookeville, Tenn.] – Cookeville Regional Medical Center released today that it has been recognized by Healthgrades as one of America’s 100 Best™ hospitals for coronary intervention and orthopedic surgery care. Healthgrades, the leading online resource helping consumers make informed decisions in order to find the right doctor, the right hospital, and the right care, evaluated nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide for 33 of the most common inpatient procedures and conditions and identified the 100 best-performing hospitals across all conditions or procedures within these service lines.

The achievement is part of findings recently released online and in the Healthgrades 2016 Report to the Nation. The new report demonstrates how clinical performance continues to differ dramatically between hospitals both nationally and regionally. This variation in care may have a significant impact on health outcomes. For example, from 2012 through 2014, if all hospitals as a group, performed similarly to hospitals receiving 5 stars as a group, on average 222,392 lives could potentially have been saved and 166,086 complications could potentially have been avoided.* A 5-star rating indicates that Cookeville Regional’s clinical outcomes are statistically significantly better than expected when treating the condition or conducting the procedure being evaluated.

Cookeville Regional not only performs at a 5-star level – it outperforms other hospitals in the nation in several conditions, and as a result, has been recognized with the 2016 Healthgrades Specialty Excellence Award in four categories: Cardiac Surgery, Coronary Intervention, Orthopedic Surgery and Pulmonary Care.

“I am proud of the strides made by our physicians and staff to continually improve the quality of care we provide our patients,” stated Paul Korth, CEO of Cookeville Regional. “Having a third party recognize us for those efforts is further validation that our services are among the highest quality found anywhere. Now, even more than before, there is very little reason for our Upper Cumberland residents to have to travel out of our region for health care.”

For its analysis, Healthgrades evaluated approximately 40 million Medicare inpatient records for nearly 4,500 short-term acute care hospitals nationwide, and assessed hospital performance relative to each of 33 common conditions and procedures. Healthgrades recognizes a hospital’s quality achievements for cohort-specific performance, specialty area performance, and overall clinical quality. Individual procedure or condition cohorts are designated as 5 star (statistically significantly better than expected), 3 star (not statistically different from expected), and 1 star (statistically significantly worse than expected) categories. The complete Healthgrades 2016 Report to the Nation with detailed cohort-specific outcomes data, hospital-specific quality achievements, and detailed study methodology, can be found at www.healthgrades.com/quality.

“The Healthgrades 2016 Report to the Nation reveals striking disparities in quality at the local level, and underscores why it is vital for consumers to understand outcomes performance at alternative hospitals for specific conditions and procedures,” said Evan Marks, Chief Strategy Officer for Healthgrades. “Hospitals with superior outcomes for certain aspects of care may not perform as well in other areas. Moreover, a major metropolitan area may have many hospitals, but only a few may provide better-than-expected outcomes for the specific care a patient needs. Those hospitals that have achieved the Healthgrades distinction have demonstrated a commitment to exceptional quality care.”

Cookeville Regional’s full listing of achievements include:

Best Specialty

*Statistics are based on Healthgrades analysis of MedPAR data for years 2012 through 2014 and represent 3-year estimates for Medicare patients only.