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Healthgrades Names Palos Community Hospital one of America's 50 Best™ Hospitals

Palos Community Hospital Named one of the Nation’s Top 1 Percent of Hospitals in 2014  

Palos Community Hospital has been named an America’s 50 Best™, by Healthgrades, which puts Palos in the top 1 percent of hospitals nationwide. Healthgrades, the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals, evaluated more than 4,500 hospitals nationwide.

“Earning a distinction as one of America’s 50 Best Hospitals™ further demonstrates the top notch clinical quality care and service excellence we provide to our patients at Palos,” says Terrence Moisan, M.D., interim CEO of Palos Community Hospital.

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Variation in hospital performance exists locally as well as nationally. For example, of the 58 hospitals evaluated located in the Chicago, Ill., metropolitan area for treatment of heart attack, risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality rates ranged from 2.1 percent on the low end to 13.3 percent on the high end, which is an over six-fold difference in mortality rates.

“Today, hospitals are working harder than ever to achieve quality care, which makes this distinction even more significant,” said Evan Marks, EVP, Informatics and Strategy, Healthgrades. “Consumers can have confidence that a hospital receiving the America’s 50 Best™ designation has demonstrated a steadfast, organizational commitment to quality.”

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Healthgrades America’s 50 Best™ designation recognizes hospitals for consistent clinical excellence by identifying those that received a Healthgrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ for the most consecutive years. To be eligible for the Healthgrades Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence, a hospital had to have been evaluated for its performance in at least 21 of the 30 Healthgrades procedures and conditions, based on Medicare inpatient data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Medicare Provider Analysis and Review (MedPAR) database. To learn more about how Healthgrades determines America’s Best Hospitals Award recipients, please visit www.healthgrades.com/quality.

About Palos Community Hospital

Palos Community Hospital’s ongoing mission is to strive to provide quality health care. By combining the medical expertise of highly skilled physicians and nurses with state-of-the-art technology and a comprehensive approach to treatment, Palos is committed to delivering compassionate health care in a healing environment.

Palos Community Hospital is a 428-bed not-for-profit health care facility located in Palos Heights, Ill. As one of the area’s leading hospitals, we have been serving the communities of the Southwest suburbs for 40 years. Our more than 500 affiliate physicians represent more than 40 specialties and subspecialties.

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